Plasmon spectroscopy and chemical structure of small bimetallic Cu(1-x)Agx clusters

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5002-5012

  Pellarin, Michel ^a   Issa, Inas ^b   Langlois, Cyril ^b   Lebeault, Marie Ange ^a   Ramade, Julien ^a   Lermé, Jean ^a   Broyer, Michel ^a   Cottancin, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BINARY ALLOYS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER OXIDES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SILVER ALLOYS; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIMETALLIC CLUSTERS; CLUSTER SURFACES; COPPER OXIDE LAYERS; DETAILED MODELING; LASER VAPORIZATION; MIXED CLUSTERS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OXIDATION PROCESS;

COPPER METALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84924172698     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp511671m     Document Type: Article

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