Local electron beam excitation and substrate effect on the plasmonic response of single gold nanostars

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 40, 2013, Pages

  Das, Pabitra ^a   Kedia, Abhitosh ^b   Kumar, Pandian Senthil ^b   Large, Nicolas ^c   Chini, Tapas Kumar ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON BEAM EXCITATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMONIC RESPONSE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

GOLD;

EID: 84884270003     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/40/405704     Document Type: Article

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