Chemically tailored dielectric-to-metal transition for the design of metamaterials from nanoimprinted colloidal nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 350-357

  Fafarman, Aaron T ^a   Hong, Sung Hoon ^a   Caglayan, Humeyra ^a   Ye, Xingchen ^b   Diroll, Benjamin T ^a   Paik, Taejong ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ammonium thiocyanate; dielectric function; gold nanoparticles; ligand exchange; Plasmonics; soft lithography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM THIOCYANATE; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LIGAND EXCHANGES; PLASMONICS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; GOLD; METAMATERIALS; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; PLASMONS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84873680258     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303161d     Document Type: Article

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