Dependence of plasmonic properties of silver island films on nanoparticle size and substrate coverage

Journal of Nanomaterials

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sreenivasan, M G ^a,b   Malik, Shweta ^a   Thigulla, Srikanth ^b   Mehta, Bodh Raj ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Hind High Vacuum Co (P) Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTER-PARTICLE INTERACTION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOW COST APPLICATIONS; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SILVER ISLAND FILMS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; FILM PREPARATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84885443185     PISSN: 16874110     EISSN: 16874129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/247045     Document Type: Article

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