Deterministic assembly of metamolecules by atomic force microscope-enabled manipulation of ultra-smooth, super-spherical gold nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 12766-12776

  Kim, Minwoo ^a   Lee, Seungwoo ^a,b   Lee, Joohyun ^a   Kim, Dong Kwan ^b   Hwang, Yoon Jo ^a   Lee, Gaehang ^c   Yi, Gi Ra ^b   Song, Young Jae ^a,b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PRECISION ENGINEERING; SPHERES;

ADHESIVE PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NPS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METASURFACES; SIZE AND SHAPE; STRUCTURAL MOTIFS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84946595171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.012766     Document Type: Article

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