Optical properties of silver and gold tetrahedral nanopyramid arrays prepared by nanosphere lithography

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 14778-14786

  Tabatabaei, Mohammadali ^a   Sangar, Alexandre ^b   Kazemi Zanjani, Nastaran ^a   Torchio, Philippe ^b   Merlen, Alexandre ^a,b   Lagugné Labarthet, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOSPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NEAR-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACTANT MOLECULES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; LASER EXCITATION; MOLECULES; NANOSPHERES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84880550214     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp405125c     Document Type: Article

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