Origin and TDDFT benchmarking of the plasmon resonance in acenes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 21466-21475

  Guidez, Emilie B ^a   Aikens, Christine M ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION INTERACTIONS; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HYBRID FUNCTIONALS; SILVER AND GOLD NANOPARTICLES; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENTS;

DIPOLE MOMENT; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NAPHTHALENE;

EID: 84886031428     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4059033     Document Type: Article

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