Evolution of plasmonic metamolecule modes in the quantum tunneling regime

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1346-1354

  Scholl, Jonathan A ^a   Garcia Etxarri, Aitzol ^a,b   Aguirregabiria, Garikoitz ^b   Esteban, Ruben ^b   Narayan, Tarun C ^a   Koh, Ai Leen ^c   Aizpurua, Javier ^b   Dionne, Jennifer A ^a,d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Nanoparticle; Plasmon; Quantum tunneling; Quantum corrected model

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; OLIGOMERS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CLASSICAL PREDICTIONS; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; QUANTUM TUNNELING; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84989811904     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06738     Document Type: Article

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