Plasmonic and Nonlinear Optical Absorption Properties of Ag:ZrO2 Nanocomposite Thin Films

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-136

  Kumar, Manish ^a,b   Sandeep, C S Suchand ^c   Kumar, G ^d   Mishra, Y K ^e   Philip, R ^c   Reddy, G B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^c RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ag nanoparticles; Nanocomposites; Nonlinear absorption; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895065274     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9605-z     Document Type: Article

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