Ultrafast photoinduced enhancement of nonlinear optical response in 15-atom gold clusters on indium tin oxide conducting film

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8483-8492

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Shibu, E S ^b   Pradeep, T ^b   Sood, A K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES; EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PROBES; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

CYCLODEXTRIN CAVITIES; DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPLEX; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; PUMP-PROBE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

GOLD; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84875974662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008483     Document Type: Article

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