Universal dispersion of surface plasmons in flat nanostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Schmidt, Franz Philipp ^a,b   Ditlbacher, Harald ^a   Hohenester, Ulrich ^a   Hohenau, Andreas ^a   Hofer, Ferdinand ^b   Krenn, Joachim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; FILM; METAL; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PLASMA; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILVER; SOLID;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FILM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84903787237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4604     Document Type: Article

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