Liquid plasmonics: Manipulating surface plasmon polaritons via phase transitions

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4324-4328

  Vivekchand, S R C ^a   Engel, Clifford J ^a   Lubin, Steven M ^a   Blaber, Martin G ^a   Zhou, Wei ^b   Suh, Jae Yong ^a   Schatz, George C ^a   Odom, Teri W ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

gratings; liquid metals; real time optical measurements; solid to liquid phase transitions; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DYNAMIC CALCULATIONS; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; LIQUID PHASE; LIQUID PHASIS; MOLDING PROCESS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMONICS; SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS; SOLID-TO-LIQUID PHASE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GALLIUM; LIQUID METALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 84864668443     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302053g     Document Type: Article

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