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Nanostructured Metal Films

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Schatz GC, McMahon JM, Gray SK (2007) Tailoring the parameters of nanohole arrays in gold films for sensing applications. Proc SPIE 6641 664103/1–8 DOI:10.1117/12.790647. McMahon JM, Henzie J, Odom TW, Schatz GC, Gray SK (2007) Tailoring the sensing capabilities of nanohole arrays in gold films with Rayleigh anomaly-surface plasmon polaritons. Opt Express 15:18119–18129. DOI:10.1364/OE.15.018119. Gao H, McMahon JM, Lee MH, Henzie J, Gray SK, Schatz GC, Odom TW (2009) Rayleigh anomaly-surface plasmon polariton resonances in palladium and gold subwavelength hole arrays. Opt Express 17:2334–2340. DOI:10.1364/OE.17.002334. Odom TW, Gao H, McMahon JM, Henzie J, Schatz GC (2009) Plasmonic superlattices: hierarchical subwavelength hole arrays. Chem Phys Lett 483:187–192. DOI:10.1016/j.cplett.2009.10.084. McMahon JM, Gray SK, Schatz GC (2011) Surface nanophotonics theory. In: Wiederrecht G (ed) Comprehensive nanoscience and technology. Elsevier, Amsterdam

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McMahon, J.M. (2011). Nanostructured Metal Films. In: Topics in Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8249-0_6

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