Single-molecule strong coupling at room temperature in plasmonic nanocavities

Nature

Volumn 535, Issue 7610, 2016, Pages 127-130

  Chikkaraddy, Rohit ^a   De Nijs, Bart ^a   Benz, Felix ^a   Barrow, Steven J ^b   Scherman, Oren A ^b   Rosta, Edina ^c   Demetriadou, Angela ^d   Fox, Peter ^d   Hess, Ortwin ^d   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d The Blackett Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PLASMA; SCATTERING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DIPOLE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULE; NANOENCAPSULATION; OSCILLATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REFRACTION INDEX; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84977674696     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17974     Document Type: Article

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