Aluminum for plasmonics

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 834-840

  Knight, Mark W ^a,b   King, Nicholas S ^b   Liu, Lifei ^b   Everitt, Henry O ^c,d   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Halas, Naomi J ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Army Aviation and Missile RD and E Center   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aluminum; dark field; hyperspectral; nanodisk; plasmon; UV

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; DARK FIELD; HYPERSPECTRAL; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; NANODISKS; NATURAL ABUNDANCE; PLASMON RESONANCES; UV;

PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84893482325     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405495q     Document Type: Article

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