Orbital Renormalization Effects on the Coupling between Molecular Excitations and Plasmons

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5659-5666

  Moore, Justin E ^a   Jensen, Lasse ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS;

DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPLEX; FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR EXCITATIONS; RENORMALIZATION EFFECTS; STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES; TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84962566484     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10479     Document Type: Article

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