Optical properties of silver and copper clusters with up to 150 atoms

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2013, Pages 197-205

  Grigoryan, V G ^a   Springborg, M ^a   Minassian, H ^b   Melikyan, A ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^c RUSSIAN ARMENIAN UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Embedded atom method; Metal clusters; Mie Gans theory; Optical absorption; Plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884989356     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.07.022     Document Type: Article

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