Quantitative understanding of the optical properties of a single, complex-shaped gold nanoparticle from experiment and theory

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4395-4402

  Perassi, Eduardo M ^a   Hrelescu, Calin ^b,c   Wisnet, Andreas ^b   Döblinger, Markus ^b   Scheu, Christina ^b   Jäckel, Frank ^b,d   Coronado, Eduardo A ^a   Feldmann, Jochen ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICOQUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dark field; DDA; enhancement; nanoparticle; Raman; Rayleigh; tomography

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ADSORBED MOLECULES; DARK-FIELD; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; RAMAN; RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; RAYLEIGH; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

GOLD;

EID: 84901675720     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406270z     Document Type: Article

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