Tuning the Plasmonic Response up: Hollow Cuboid Metal Nanostructures

ACS Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 770-779

  Genç, Aziz ^a,b   Patarroyo, Javier ^a   Sancho Parramon, Jordi ^c   Arenal, Raul ^d,e   Duchamp, Martial ^f   Gonzalez, Edgar E ^g   Henrard, Luc ^h   Bastús, Neus G ^a   Dunin Borkowski, Rafal E ^f   Puntes, Victor F ^a,i,j   Arbiol, Jordi ^a,j  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b BARTIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^g PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^j INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

AuAg; electron energy loss spectroscopy; hollow metal nanoparticles; label free sensing; localized surface plasmon resonances

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SAILING VESSELS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUNING;

AUAG; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; LABEL-FREE SENSING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOPARTICLE MORPHOLOGY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84969793340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00667     Document Type: Article

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