Controllable Tuning Plasmonic Coupling with Nanoscale Oxidation

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6110-6118

  Ding, Tao ^a   Sigle, Daniel ^a   Zhang, Liwu ^a,b   Mertens, Jan ^a   De Nijs, Bart ^a   Baumberg, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aluminum; electrochemistry; irradiation; oxidization; plasmons

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; IRRADIATION; METALS; MIRRORS; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMONS; TUNING;

CONTINUOUS TUNABILITY; LOCALIZED PLASMONS; NANOMETER-SCALE GAPS; OXIDIZATION; OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; PLASMONIC COUPLING; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; X RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION;

EID: 84935014159     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01283     Document Type: Article

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