Revealing the quantum regime in tunnelling plasmonics

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7425, 2012, Pages 574-577

  Savage, Kevin J ^a   Hawkeye, Matthew M ^a   Esteban, Rubén ^b   Borisov, Andrei G ^b,c   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PLASMA; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSOR;

ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; NANOANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSOR;

EID: 84869881418     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11653     Document Type: Article

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