Large Nonlinearity Enhancement of Ag/MEH-PPV Nanocomposite by Surface Plasmon Resonance at 1,550 nm

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-165

  Lu, Cuicui ^a   Hu, Xiaoyong ^a   Zhang, Yingbo ^a   Li, Zhiqiang ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanocomposite material; Silver nanoprisms; SPR enhanced nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857997312     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9289-1     Document Type: Article

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