Combined Tight-Binding and Numerical Electrodynamics Understanding of the STEM/EELS Magneto-optical Responses of Aromatic Plasmon-Supporting Metal Oligomers

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1013-1024

  Cherqui, Charles ^a   Bigelow, Nicholas W ^a   Vaschillo, Alex ^a   Goldwyn, Harrison ^a   Masiello, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy; electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS); magnetic plasmon resonances; scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BINDING ENERGY; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGOMERS; PLASMONS; PROBES; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRIC DIPOLE RESONANCE; ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FERROMAGNETIC AND ANTI-FERROMAGNETIC; LOCALIZED MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC PLASMON RESONANCES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84921497885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5002268     Document Type: Article

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