Dynamically self-assembled silver nanoparticles as a thermally tunable metamaterial

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lewandowski, Wiktor ^a   Fruhnert, Martin ^b   Mieczkowski, Józef ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^c   Górecka, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

FUTURE PROSPECT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; SILVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; HEATING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIAL COATING; MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; REFRACTION INDEX; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMALLY TUNABLE METAMATERIAL;

EID: 84924943608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7590     Document Type: Article

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