Multimodal plasmonics in fused colloidal networks

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-94

  Teulle, Alexandre ^a   Bosman, Michel ^b   Girard, Christian ^a   Gurunatha, Kargal L ^a   Li, Mei ^c   Mann, Stephen ^c   Dujardin, Erik ^a  

^a CEMES CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

COLLOIDAL NETWORKS; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LOW ENERGY SURFACES; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NANOPARTICLE NETWORKS; SELF-ASSEMBLED NETWORKS; SPECTRALLY TUNABLE; SURFACE PLASMON MODES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84930962386     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4114     Document Type: Article

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