Assembly of "3D" plasmonic clusters by "2D" AFM nanomanipulation of highly uniform and smooth gold nanospheres

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Park, Kyung Jin ^a   Huh, Ji Hyeok ^a   Jung, Dae Woong ^b   Park, Jin Sung ^c   Choi, Gwan H ^b   Lee, Gaehang ^d   Yoo, Pil J ^b   Park, Hong Gyu ^c   Yi, Gi Ra ^b   Lee, Seungwoo ^a,b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

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EID: 85025434838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06456-w     Document Type: Article

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