Femtosecond nonlinear ultrasonics in gold probed with ultrashort surface plasmons

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Temnov, Vasily V ^a,b   Klieber, Christoph ^a   Nelson, Keith A ^a   Thomay, Tim ^c   Knittel, Vanessa ^c   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^c   Makarov, Denys ^d   Albrecht, Manfred ^d   Bratschitsch, Rudolf ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GOLD; GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

COBALT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FEMTOSECOND LASER; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONON; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84874594480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2480     Document Type: Article

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