Plasmon-modulated photoluminescence from gold nanostructures and its dependence on plasmon resonance, excitation energy, and band structure

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5547-5564

  Ngoc, Loan Le Thi ^a   Wiedemair, Justyna ^a   Van Den Berg, Albert ^a   Carlen, Edwin T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; GOLD; GOLD METALLURGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

BACKGROUND CONTINUUM; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOSTRUCTURED GOLD; PLASMON RESONANCES; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRUM;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84945910616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.005547     Document Type: Article

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