Excitation nature of two-photon photoluminescence of gold nanorods and coupled gold nanoparticles studied by two-pulse emission modulation spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1634-1638

  Jiang, Xiao Fang ^a   Pan, Yanlin ^a   Jiang, Cuifeng ^a   Zhao, Tingting ^a   Yuan, Peiyan ^a   Venkatesan, T ^a   Xu, Qing Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

gold nanoparticles; photoluminescence; plasmon coupling; two photon excitation; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; PLASMON COUPLING; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCES; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

DECAY (ORGANIC); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODULATION; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NANORODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; PROBES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

GOLD;

EID: 84878101805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400582h     Document Type: Article

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