Ultrafast acousto-plasmonic control and sensing in complex nanostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  O'Brien, Kevin ^a   Lanzillotti Kimura, N D ^a   Rho, Junsuk ^a   Suchowski, Haim ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE MOTION; POLARIZATION; SPATIAL DATA; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACOUSTIC PHONON; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; EXCITATION; HEATING; MOTION; NANOFABRICATION; PHONON; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84901999747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5042     Document Type: Article

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