Palladium bridged gold nanocylinder dimer: Plasmonic properties and hydrogen sensitivity

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1688-1693

  Dasgupta, Arindam ^a   Kumar, G V Pavan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIMERS; GEOMETRY; GOLD;

EXTINCTION SPECTRA; GAP JUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN SENSITIVITY; HYDROGEN SENSOR; OPTICAL DETECTION; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMONIC SENSING;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84859600616     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001688     Document Type: Article

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