Influence of the layer thickness in plasmonic gold nanoparticles produced by thermal evaporation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gaspar, D ^a   Pimentel, A C ^a   Mateus, T ^a   Leitao J P ^b   Soares, J ^b   Falcao B P ^b   Araujo A ^a   Vicente, A ^a   Filonovich, S A ^a   Aguas H ^a   Martins, R ^a   Ferreira, I ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA DOS MATERIAIS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84876533482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01469     Document Type: Article

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