Electronic and optical properties of vertex-sharing homo- and hetero-biicosahedral gold clusters

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 24586-24591

  Iwasa, Takeshi ^a,b   Nobusada, Katsuyuki ^c   Nakajima, Atsushi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL COMPUTATIONS; ELECTRON SHELLS; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; PROJECTED DENSITY OF STATE; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; STABLE STRUCTURES; VERTEX SHARING;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84888596880     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4081405     Document Type: Article

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