Deep ultraviolet plasmon resonance in aluminum nanoparticle arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5834-5841

  Maidecchi, Giulia ^a   Gonella, Grazia ^b   Proietti Zaccaria, Remo ^c   Moroni, Riccardo ^d   Anghinolfi, Luca ^a   Giglia, Angelo ^e   Nannarone, Stefano ^e,f   Mattera, Lorenzo ^a   Dai, Hai Lung ^b   Canepa, Maurizio ^a   Bisio, Francesco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Temple University   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d CNR SPIN   (Italy)

^e IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

aluminum; discrete dipole approximation; finite integration technique; nanoparticle; self organization; ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

CORE/SHELL NANOPARTICLES; DEEP-ULTRAVIOLET REGIONS; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; FINITE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET;

ALUMINUM; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOPARTICLES;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84880822824     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400918n     Document Type: Article

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