Nanoscale near-field infrared spectroscopic imaging of silica-shell/gold- core and pure silica nanoparticles

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nuño, Zachary ^a   Hessler, Brandon ^a   Heiberg, Bryan ^a   Damato, Ralph ^a   Dunlap, Terry ^a   Shon, Young Seok ^a   Abate, Yohannes ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coating layers; Core shell nanoparticles; Near field infrared imaging; Scattering type scanning near field optical microscopy (s SNOM); Silica shell

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; CORE SHELL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHONONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

COATING LAYER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; NEAR FIELD INTERACTIONS; NEAR-FIELD INFRARED IMAGING; SCATTERING-TYPE SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (S-SNOM); SILICA SHELL; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCATTERING TYPE SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84856806894     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-012-0766-z     Document Type: Article

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