Optical properties of chiral three-dimensional plasmonic oligomers at the onset of charge-transfer plasmons

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 10355-10365

  Hentschel, Mario ^a,b   Wu, Lin ^c   Schäferling, Martin ^a   Bai, Ping ^c   Li, Er Ping ^c   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

charge transfer plasmon; chirality stereochemistry; circular dichroism; enantiomers; oligomers; plasmons

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GEOMETRICAL SHAPES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; RED SHIFT; SENSING APPLICATIONS; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHIRALITY; DICHROISM; ENANTIOMERS; NANOPARTICLES; OHMIC CONTACTS; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PLASMONS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870422834     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304283y     Document Type: Article

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