Blueshift of the surface plasmon resonance in silver nanoparticles: Substrate effects

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27344-27355

  Raza, Søren ^a   Yan, Wei ^a   Stenger, Nicolas ^a   Wubs, Martijn ^a   Mortensen, N Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAUSIUS-MOSSOTTI FACTOR; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MULTIPOLE EXPANSIONS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; SCATTERING MATRICES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SPHERES;

SILVER;

EID: 84887471289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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