Colloidal Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Nanoparticles: Properties and Applications

Nanophotonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 269-276

  Guler, Urcan ^a,b   Suslov, Sergey ^c   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a,b   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a,b,d   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nano Meta Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

hot electrons; photocatalysis; photodynamic therapy; photothermal effect; plasmonic heating; refractory plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOT ELECTRONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PLASMONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; NITRIDE NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS; PLASMONIC HEATING; PLASMONICS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENTS;

TITANIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 84944329565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2015-0017     Document Type: Article

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