Acoustic Surface Plasmon Dispersion on Nanostructured Cu(111)

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-329

  Vattuone, Luca ^a,b   Vercelli, Gabriele ^a   Smerieri, Marco ^a,b   Savio, Letizia ^b   Rocca, Mario ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IMEM CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic surface plasmon; Copper; High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy; Nanostructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864104642     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9310-8     Document Type: Article

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