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Optical Properties of Metallic Semishells: Breaking the Symmetry of Plasmonic Nanoshells

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Symmetric metal colloids, for example, nanospheres and nanoshells, are very well-studied plasmonic nanostructures. Breaking the symmetry of originally symmetric nanostructures induces many interesting changes of optical properties and local near-field distribution. In this chapter, we present the fabrication and optical properties of symmetry-broken nanoshells, namely, semishells.

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  2. Chemistry Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jian Ye

  3. Physics Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Ye, J., Van Dorpe, P. (2013). Optical Properties of Metallic Semishells: Breaking the Symmetry of Plasmonic Nanoshells. In: Kumar, C. (eds) UV-VIS and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27594-4_2

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