Loss-Mitigated Collective Resonances in Gain-Assisted Plasmonic Mesocapsules

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 371-376

  Infusino, Melissa ^a   De Luca, Antonio ^a,b   Veltri, Alessandro ^a,b   Vázquez Vázquez, Carmen ^c   Correa Duarte, Miguel A ^c   Dhama, Rakesh ^b   Strangi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

active plasmonics; collective resonances; loss compensation; nanostructured systems; pump probe spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; BROADBAND ATTENUATION; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; LOSS COMPENSATION; NANOSTRUCTURED SYSTEMS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; SPHERICAL CAVITIES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84924618378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph400174p     Document Type: Article

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