Giant colloidal silver crystals for low-loss linear and nonlinear plasmonics

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Chun Yuan ^a   Chen, Hung Ying ^a   Sun, Liuyang ^b   Chen, Wei Liang ^c   Chang, Yu Ming ^c   Ahn, Hyeyoung ^d   Li, Xiaoqin ^b   Gwo, Shangjr ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; SILVER; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84947723940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8734     Document Type: Article

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