Bottom-up fabrication and optical characterization of dense films of meta-Atoms made of core-shell plasmonic nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1551-1561

  Malassis, Ludivine ^a,b   Massé, Pascal ^a,b   Tréguer Delapierre, Mona ^a,b   Mornet, Stéphane ^a,b   Weisbecker, Patrick ^c   Kravets, Vasyl ^d   Grigorenko, Alexander ^d   Barois, Philippe ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Laboratoire des Composites Thermostructuraux   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE-SHIFTED; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; BOTTOM-UP FABRICATION; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL; DENSE FILMS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LORENTZ OSCILLATOR MODEL; LOW INDEX; MAXWELL-GARNETT MIXING; METALLIC CORES; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; SILICA SHELL; SILVER CORES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS; VARIABLE ANGLE SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

ATOMS; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; SILICA; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84873343642     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303150r     Document Type: Article

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