Plasmon longitudinal

Valence electrons also can be excited by interacting with the electron beam to produce a collective, longitudinal charge density oscillation called a plasmon. Plas-mons can exist only in solids and liquids, and not in gases because they require electronic states with a strong overlap between atoms. Even insulators can exhibit... 

Although CNTs showed similar EELS pattern in plasmon-loss and core-loss regions to graphite, SWCNT and fine MWCNT with a diameter less than 5 nm had different features. Furthermore, it has been found out that the angular-dependent EELS along the direction normal to the longitudinal axis of CNT shows stronger contribution from Jt electrons than [Pg.38]

Starch-mediated shape-selective synthesis of Au nanoparticles with tunable longitudinal plasmon resonance. Langmuir, 20, 3520-3524. 

Nevertheless, certain collective excitations can occur in the condensed phase. These may be brought about by longitudinal coulombic interaction (plasmons in thin films) or by transverse interaction, as in the 7-eV excitation in condensed benzene, which is believed to be an exciton [12]. Special conditions must be satisfied by the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric function of the condensed phase for collective excitations to occur. After analyzing these factors, it has been concluded that in most ordinary liquids such as water, collective excitations would not result by interaction of fast charged particles [13,14]. 

It is essential that plasmons are longitudinal electric waves, that is, that the electric field strength vector is parallel to the wave vector q. For a plane wave, the vector potential of electromagnetic field is... 

From (3.9) it follows that % is parallel to A. On the other hand, the plasmon oscillations are longitudinal ( q), so A is also parallel to q,... 

As an example, let us consider liquid water (Fig. 8). The highest oscillator strength, fx = 0.43, corresponds to the transition ha>x = 13.5 eV. The peak the energy-loss function Im [-l/e(w)] has around 21 eV is of plasmon nature, that is, corresponds to longitudinal collective oscillations... 

Similar to zero-dimensional metal nanoparticles, most of the work on one-dimensional metal nanostructures focuses almost exclusively on gold nanorods. The high interest in anisometric gold nanoclusters arises from their unique optical and electronic properties that can be easily tuned through small changes in size, structure (e.g., the position, width, and intensity of the absorption band due to the longitudinal surface plasmon resonance is strongly influenced by the shell as well as the aspect ratio of the nanorods), shape (e.g., needle, round capped cylinder, or dog bone), and the inter-particle distance [157]. 

These are quantized vibrations of conduction electrons in a metal or semiconductor 4°). The quantized energy levels of the collective longitudinal vibrations of the electron gas are quasi-particles in the sense of the definition given above and are called plasmons. The frequency of this longitudinal vibration, the plasma frequency u>P, is given by 40>... 

In order to assemble gold nanorods (aspect ratio 2.4) by the click reaction, one batch of nanorods capped with 4-azidobutane-l-thiol, A, and another with hex-5-yn-l-thiol, B, were reacted in the acetonitrile-water mixture under standard conditions [12], The occurrence of the click reaction was established by infrared spectroscopy [13], The product of the reaction was investigated by electronic absorption spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Fig. 1 compares the electronic absorption spectra of the gold nanorods before and after the click reaction between the A and B type nanorods. Isolated gold nanorods show transverse and longitudinal plasmon bands around 520 nm and 630 nm, respectively (see Fig. la). 

Fig. 4b. The longitudinal plasmon resonance band does not shift after the first few injections of MPA (point II), and shows significant shifts after 22 injections (point III). We assign the first step in the calorimetric data to the binding...

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