Huge enhancement of optical nonlinearities in coupled Au and Ag nanoparticles induced by conjugated polymers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Polavarapu, Lakshminarayana ^a   Mamidala, Venkatesh ^a   Guan, Zhenping ^a   Ji, Wei ^a   Xu, Qing Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOPARTICLE; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; CATIONIC CONJUGATED POLYMER; FLUENCES; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; OPTICAL LIMITING; OPTICAL LIMITING EFFECTS; OPTICAL LIMITING PROPERTIES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

SILVER;

EID: 84855947714     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3675911     Document Type: Article

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