Metal nanoshells

LR Hirsch, AM Gobin, AR Lowery, F Tam… - Annals of biomedical …, 2006 - Springer
Metal nanoshells consist of a dielectric core nanoparticle such as silica surrounded by an
ultrathin metal … Depending on the size and composition of each layer of the nanoshell, particles …

Optical properties of metal nanoshells

E Hao, S Li, RC Bailey, S Zou, GC Schatz… - The Journal of …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Metallic nanoshells are one of the most interesting and possibly useful of the recently …
Metal nanoshells are considered to be attractive for applications in SERS 19 and environmental …

Surface plasmon resonance sensitivity of metal nanostructures: physical basis and universal scaling in metal nanoshells

PK Jain, MA El-Sayed - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007 - ACS Publications
… -diameter hollow gold nanoshells (thickness ∼ … metal nanoshell as our model nanostructure.
We find that starting from a solid metal nanosphere and moving toward a metal nanoshell

Relative contributions to the plasmon line shape of metal nanoshells

SL Westcott, JB Jackson, C Radloff, NJ Halas - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
… a nanoshell, a dielectric core coated with a thin metal shell, is shown in Fig. 1. There are two
reliable methods for synthesizing metallic nanoshells … The dimensions of the nanoshells can …

Playing with plasmons: tuning the optical resonant properties of metallic nanoshells

N Halas - Mrs Bulletin, 2005 - cambridge.org
… of the metallic shell layer, we call this structure a nanoshell.In … dimensions, gold or silver
nanoshells can be fabricated that will … In Figure 1a, the basic nanoshell geometry is illustrated; …

Metallic nanoshells with semiconductor cores: optical characteristics modified by core medium properties

R Bardhan, NK Grady, T Ali, NJ Halas - ACS nano, 2010 - ACS Publications
nanoshell is in air or ε c ∼ 7.2 when the nanoshell is in water. To examine the role of the core
dielectric function, we compare Cu 2 O core nanoshells to nanoshells … 2 core nanoshells (…

Alloying and dealloying processes involved in the preparation of metal nanoshells through a galvanic replacement reaction

Y Sun, Y Xia - Nano Letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
… shell of the desired metal (or a precursor to this metal) is deposited … metal structure. Although
this approach can be experimentally simple and straightforward, the resultant nanoshells

Enhanced thermal stability of silica-encapsulated metal nanoshells

C Radloff, NJ Halas - Applied Physics Letters, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Metal nanoshells are concentric sphere nanoparticles with a dielectric core and a metal
shell.The optical response of metal nanoshells is determined by their plasmon resonance, which …

Structural tunability of the plasmon resonances in metallic nanoshells

E Prodan, P Nordlander - Nano Letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
… Using the time-dependent LDA method, we investigate the tunability of the optical
polarizability of small metallic nanoshells. We show that the energies of the two dipolar plasmon …

Linear optical response of metallic nanoshells in different dielectric media

O Peña, U Pal, L Rodríguez-Fernández… - JOSA B, 2008 - opg.optica.org
… optical response of metallic nanoshells. In this work we used this theory to calculate the
optical extinction spectra of metallic nanoshells of three different metals embedded in different …