A quantitative study of the environmental effects on the optical response of gold nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8183-8193

  Davletshin, Yevgeniy R ^a   Lombardi, Anna ^b   Cardinal, M Fernanda ^c,d   Juvé, Vincent ^b   Crut, Aurélien ^b   Maioli, Paolo ^b   Liz Marzán, Luis M ^d   Vallée, Fabrice ^b   Fatti, Natalia Del ^b   Kumaradas, J Carl ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

environment; finite element method; gold nanorods; local fields; silica coating; spatial modulation spectroscopy; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT; GOLD NANOROD; LOCAL FIELDS; SILICA COATINGS; SPATIAL MODULATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GOLD; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MODULATION; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SILICA; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANORODS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84866646485     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302869v     Document Type: Article

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