Optical excitations and field enhancement in short graphene nanoribbons

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 924-929

  Cocchi, Caterina ^a,b   Prezzi, Deborah ^a   Ruini, Alice ^a,b   Benassi, Enrico ^a   Caldas, Marilia J ^c   Corni, Stefano ^a   Molinari, Elisa ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT COMBINATION; COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS; DIPOLE FIELDS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE LENGTH; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LOW ENERGIES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOFLAKES; NANOSCALE REGIME; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; REALISTIC GEOMETRY; SEMI-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SINGLE-PARTICLE; TUNABILITIES;

GRAPHENE; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

PHOTOEXCITATION;

EID: 84859576706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300164p     Document Type: Article

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