Identification of higher order long-propagation-length surface plasmon polariton modes in chemically prepared gold nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8105-8113

  Paul, Aniruddha ^a   Solis, David ^b   Bao, Kui ^a   Chang, Wei Shun ^a   Nauert, Scott ^a   Vidgerman, Leonid ^a   Zubarev, Eugene R ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Link, Stephan ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorescence imaging; gold nanowires; plasmon propagation; plasmonic waveguides; surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GOLD NANOWIRE; PLASMON PROPAGATION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHOTOBLEACHING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PLASMONS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84866647132     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3027112     Document Type: Article

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