Molding of plasmonic resonances in metallic nanostructures: Dependence of the non-linear electric permittivity on system size and temperature

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4879-4910

  Alabastri, Alessandro ^a   Tuccio, Salvatore ^a   Giugni, Andrea ^a   Toma, Andrea ^a   Liberale, Carlo ^a   Das, Gobind ^a   Angelis, Francesco De ^a   Fabrizio, Enzo Di ^b,c   Zaccaria, Remo Proietti ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nanostructures; Non linear optics; Photonics; Plasmonics; Temperature dependence; Thermoplasmonics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; INTRABAND TRANSITIONS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMOPLASMONICS;

NANOSTRUCTURES; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84888781391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6114879     Document Type: Article

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