Are hot spots between two plasmonic nanocubes of silver or gold formed between adjacent corners or adjacent facets? A DDA examination

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2229-2234

  Hooshmand, Nasrin ^a   Bordley, Justin A ^a   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregation; hot spots; imaging; plasmonic coupling; sensors

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SENSORS;

DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; HOT SPOT; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; PLASMONIC COUPLING; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SOLID NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT;

SILVER;

EID: 84903850269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500673p     Document Type: Article

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