Enhancement of nonlinear optical properties of BaTiO3 nanoparticles by the addition of silver seeds

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26511-26520

  Yust, Brian G ^a   Razavi, Neema ^a   Pedraza, Francisco ^a   Elliott, Zakary ^a   Tsin, Andrew T ^a   Sardar, Dhiraj K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATIO; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

BARIUM TITANATE; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

SILVER;

NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870621004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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