Fine structure constant and quantized optical transparency of plasmonic nanoarrays

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kravets, V G ^a   Schedin, F ^a   Grigorenko, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; NANOARRAY; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PLASMONIC NANOOPTICS; SPECTROSCOPY; ABSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ABSORPTION; GOLD; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856750343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1649     Document Type: Article

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