Nonlinear bleaching, absorption, and scattering of 532-nm-irradiated plasmonic nanoparticles

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Liberman, V ^a   Sworin, M ^a   Kingsborough, R P ^a   Geurtsen, G P ^a   Rothschild, M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLE; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MATERIAL DAMAGES; NANODISKS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; OPTICAL LIMITERS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PULSED-LASER SYSTEMS; QUASI-STATIC; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SINGLE-PULSE; SINGLE-PULSE IRRADIATION; SIZE DEPENDENCE; VARIABLE SIZES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MEAN FIELD THEORY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; SILVER;

GOLD;

EID: 84873694911     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790798     Document Type: Article

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46. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4790798 E-JAPIAU-113-029307 for the details of the nanoparticle synthesis and characterization as well as simulation results of the spatial maps of susceptibility enhancement distributions.