Engineering metallic nanostructures for plasmonics and nanophotonics

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lindquist, Nathan C ^a,b   Nagpal, Prashant ^c   McPeak, Kevin M ^d   Norris, David J ^d   Oh, Sang Hyun ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; ENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENGINEERING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84857511575     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/3/036501     Document Type: Review

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