Strong broadband scattering of anisotropic plasmonic nanoparticles synthesized by controllable growth: Effects of lumpy morphology

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-34

  Chen, Xi ^a   Jia, Baohua ^a   Saha, Jhantu Kumar ^a   Stokes, Nicholas ^a   Qiao, Qi ^b   Wang, Yongqian ^b   Shi, Zhengrong ^b   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; ANISOTROPIC SURFACES; CONTROLLABLE GROWTH; CONTROLLED SHAPE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SCATTERING; PARTICLE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; SCATTERING INTENSITY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SIZE AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; SIZE-SELECTIVE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WET-CHEMICAL METHOD;

ANISOTROPY; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SILVER;

EID: 84873439553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000027     Document Type: Article

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