Self-assembled plasmonic metamaterials

Nanophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 211-240

  Mühlig, Stefan ^a   Cunningham, Alastair ^b   Dintinger, José ^c   Scharf, Toralf ^c   Bürgi, Thomas ^b   Lederer, Falk ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amorphous structures; Bottom up; Metamaterials; Nanochemistry; Plasmonic nanoparticles; Plasmonics; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMORPHOUS STRUCTURES; BOTTOM UP; NANO CHEMISTRY; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONICS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84894869731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0036     Document Type: Article

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