Hollow metal nanostructures for enhanced plasmonics: Synthesis, local plasmonic properties and applications

Nanophotonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 193-213

  Genç, Aziz ^a,b   Patarroyo, Javier ^a   Sancho Parramon, Jordi ^c   Bastús, Neus G ^a   Puntes, Victor ^a,d,e   Arbiol, Jordi ^a,e  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b BARTIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

applications; electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS); hollow nanostructures; plasmon hybridization; surface plasmon resonances (SPRs)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; CHARACTERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTIONS; HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOSCALE CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOTHERMAL ABLATION THERAPY; PLASMON HYBRIDIZATION; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85002168854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2016-0124     Document Type: Review

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