Size-dependence of the effective electron-phonon energy relaxation in hollow gold nanospheres

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-40

  Fan, Y ^a   Li, J ^a   Chen, H ^a   Lu, X ^a   Liu, X ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

effective electron phonon coupling constant; hollow gold nanospheres; nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON CORRELATIONS; ELECTRONS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

COUPLING CONSTANTS; EFFECTIVE ELECTRONS; ELECTRON PHONON; ELECTRON SURFACE; ENERGY RELAXATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; GOLD NANOSPHERES; METAL NANOSPHERES;

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84891832175     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11772-014-0172-4     Document Type: Article

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