Multicolor microscopy and spectroscopy reveals the physics of the one-photon luminescence in gold nanorods

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 17870-17877

  Wackenhut, Frank ^a   Failla, Antonio Virgilio ^a,b   Meixner, Alfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED ELECTRONS; GOLD NANOROD; PLASMON MODES;

ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; LUMINESCENCE; NANORODS; PHOTONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84883350624     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp407353r     Document Type: Article

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