Modified optical absorption of molecules on metallic nanoparticles at sub-monolayer coverage

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 40-45

  Darby, Brendan L ^a   Auguié, Baptiste ^a   Meyer, Matthias ^a   Pantoja, Andres E ^a   Le Ru, Eric C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS;

INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RESONANCES; PLASMON RESONANCES; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; SUBMONOLAYER COVERAGE; SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

EID: 84946134691     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.205     Document Type: Article

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