Spatial confinement of electromagnetic hot and cold spots in gold nanocubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1299-1307

  Haggui, Mohamed ^a   Dridi, Montacer ^b   Plain, Jérôme ^a   Marguet, Sylvie ^c   Perez, Henri ^c   Schatz, George C ^b   Wiederrecht, Gary P ^d   Gray, Stephen K ^d   Bachelot, Renaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

azobenzene; electromagnetic cold spots; electromagnetic hot spot; gold; nanocubes; near field depolarization; near field photochemical imaging; photoisomerization; plasmon

Indexed keywords

COLD SPOTS; COLLOIDAL GOLD; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HOT SPOT; IMAGING METHOD; MOLECULAR DISPLACEMENTS; NANOCUBES; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT;

AZOBENZENE; GOLD; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; PLASMONS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TIME;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857758409     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2040389     Document Type: Article

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