Angle-resolved plasmonic properties of single gold nanorod dimers

Nano-Micro Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 372-380

  Wu, Jian ^a,b   Lu, Xuxing ^b   Zhu, Qiannan ^b   Zhao, Junwei ^b   Shen, Qishun ^a   Zhan, Li ^a   Ni, Weihai ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Gold nanorods; Plasmonics; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; GOLD; GOLD NANORODS; NANORODS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BUILDING BLOCKES; DIMER STRUCTURE; EXCITATION ANGLES; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; STRUCTURE ANGLES;

DIMERS;

EID: 84908248457     PISSN: 23116706     EISSN: 21505551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40820-014-0011-7     Document Type: Article

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