Threading plasmonic nanoparticle strings with light

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Herrmann, Lars O ^a   Valev, Ventsislav K ^a   Tserkezis, Christos ^b   Barnard, Jonathan S ^c   Kasera, Setu ^c   Scherman, Oren A ^c   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL;

LIGHT EFFECT; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMA; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESONANCE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84905240692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5568     Document Type: Article

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