Ultrasmooth, highly spherical monocrystalline gold particles for precision plasmonics

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 11064-11070

  Lee, You Jin ^a,b   Schade, Nicholas B ^c   Sun, Li ^c   Fan, Jonathan A ^d   Bae, Doo Ri ^b   Mariscal, Marcelo M ^e   Lee, Gaehang ^b   Capasso, Federico ^c   Sacanna, Stefano ^f   Manoharan, Vinothan N ^c   Yi, Gi Ra ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICOQUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical etching; Fano like resonance; gold nanospheres; monodisperse; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ETCHING; GOLD NANOSPHERES; MONO-DISPERSE; NANOPARTICLE CLUSTERS; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLASMONICS; QUASI-STATIC CONDITIONS; SCATTERING SPECTRA;

ETCHING; GOLD; PLASMONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

SPHERES;

EID: 84891358672     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404765w     Document Type: Article

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