Tuning the structural and optical properties of gold/silver nano-alloys prepared by laser ablation in liquids for optical limiting, ultra-sensitive spectroscopy, and optical trapping

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 2490-2498

  Messina, E ^a   D'Urso, L ^b   Fazio, E ^c   Satriano, C ^b   Donato, M G ^a   D'Andrea, C ^a   Marago O M ^a   Gucciardi, P G ^a   Compagnini, G ^b   Neri, F ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Metallic nanoparticles; Optical limiting; Optical properties; Pulsed laser ablation; Raman optical tweezers; SERS

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RATIO; COLLOIDAL STATE; LASER ABLATION IN LIQUID; LINEAR CARBON; LIQUID STATE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MOLAR FRACTIONS; NANO-ALLOYS; OPTICAL LIMITING; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICALTRAPPING; PLASMON RESONANCES; PROBE MOLECULES; RAMAN SIGNAL; SERS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRAPPING EFFECTS;

ALLOYS; GOLD; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PULSED LASERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ALLOY; GOLD; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84868193701     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.06.023     Document Type: Article

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