Fowler - Nordheim tunneling induced charge transfer plasmons between nearly touching nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 707-716

  Wu, Lin ^a   Duan, Huigao ^b   Bai, Ping ^a   Bosman, Michel ^b   Yang, Joel K W ^b   Li, Erping ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

charge transfer plasmons; direct tunneling; Fowler Nordheim tunneling; nearly touching nanoparticles; quantum plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC DIMENSION; CONDUCTIVE PATHS; DIRECT TUNNELING; F-N TUNNELING; FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASMON MODES; PLASMON RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM DEVICE; RESONANT MODE; SUBNANOMETERS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TUNNELING PROCESS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLASH MEMORY; LIGHT SOURCES; PLASMONS;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTORS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872874331     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304970v     Document Type: Article

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