Generalized synthesis of hybrid metal-semiconductor nanostructures tunable from the visible to the infrared

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3832-3840

  Khanal, Bishnu P ^a   Pandey, Anshu ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Lin, Qianglu ^b   Bae, Wan Ki ^a   Luo, Hongmei ^b   Klimov, Victor I ^a   Pietryga, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitons; Metal nanoparticles; Multifunctional materials; Plasmons; Quantum dots; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMAGING; BUILDING BLOCKES; COUPLED SYSTEMS; MID-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; MONOFUNCTIONAL; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; PLASMONIC; STRUCTURAL TUNING; SYNTHETIC ROUTES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

EXCITONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84864697892     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204932m     Document Type: Article

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