Plasmonic percolation: Plasmon-manifested dielectric-to-metal transition

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7162-7171

  Chen, Huanjun ^a   Wang, Feng ^a,b   Li, Kun ^c   Woo, Kat Choi ^a   Wang, Jianfang ^a   Li, Quan ^a   Sun, Ling Dong ^b   Zhang, Xixiang ^c   Lin, Hai Qing ^a,d   Yan, Chun Hua ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

core shell nanostructures; gold nanorods; localized surface plasmon resonance; percolation; plasmon shifts; refractive index sensitivity

Indexed keywords

AU NANORODS; BLUE SHIFT; CORE-SHELL NANOSTRUCTURES; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; GOLD NANOROD; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; METAL TYPES; PD NANO PARTICLE; PERCOLATION BEHAVIOR; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PLASMON WAVELENGTH; PLASMONIC; QUASI-STATIC THEORY; REAL PART; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; SHELL NANOSTRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GOLD; NANORODS; PALLADIUM; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLVENTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VOLUME FRACTION;

PLASMONS;

GOLD; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PALLADIUM; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84865603439     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302220y     Document Type: Article

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