Scaling of the surface plasmon resonance in gold and silver dimers probed by EELS

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5478-5485

  Kadkhodazadeh, Shima ^a   De Lasson, Jakob Rosenkrantz ^a   Beleggia, Marco ^a   Kneipp, Harald ^a   Wagner, Jakob Birkedal ^a   Kneipp, Katrin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DIMERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; PLASMONS; SILVER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH;

INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; NANOSPHERE DIMERS; POWER DEPENDENCE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SUBNANOMETER RESOLUTION; SURFACE PLASMON COUPLING; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84896339821     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp500288s     Document Type: Article

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