Propagation lengths and group velocities of plasmons in chemically synthesized gold and silver nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 472-482

  Wild, Barbara ^a   Cao, Lina ^a,b   Sun, Yugang ^b   Khanal, Bishnu P ^c   Zubarev, Eugene R ^c   Gray, Stephen K ^b   Scherer, Norbert F ^a,b   Pelton, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

group velocity; nanowires; propagation length; surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; CROSS SECTION; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FAR-FIELD; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD NANOWIRE; GROUP VELOCITIES; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LARGE-SCALE CRYSTALLINE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PLASMON LOSS; PLASMONIC; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION LENGTH; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SILVER NANOWIRES; SINGLE MODE; SOLID METALS; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; GOLD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMONS; SILVER; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

NANOWIRES;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856151534     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203802e     Document Type: Article

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