Modular plasmonic antennas built of ultrathin silica-shell silver-core nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 7919-7927

  Zohar, Nir ^a   Haran, Gilad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ANALYTE MOLECULES; DIMERIC STRUCTURE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; POSITIVELY CHARGED; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

SILVER;

EID: 84903973468     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5017033     Document Type: Article

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