Scattering Efficiency and LSPR Tunability of Bimetallic Ag, Au, and Cu Nanoparticles

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 143-150

  Bansal, Amit ^a   Sekhon, Jagmeet Singh ^a   Verma, S S ^a  

^a SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Alloy nanoparticles; Bandwidth; Core shell nanoparticles; Plasmonics; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895057622     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9607-x     Document Type: Article

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