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Plasmonics in heavily-doped semiconductor nanocrystals

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Heavily-doped semiconductor nanocrystals characterized by a tunable plasmonic band have been gaining increasing attention recently. Herein, we introduce this type of materials focusing on their structural and photo-physical properties. Beside their continuous-wave plasmonic response, depicted both theoretically and experimentally, we also review recent results on their transient ultrafast response. This was successfully interpreted by adapting models of the ultrafast response of noble metal nanoparticles.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, P.zza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Scotognella, Giuseppe Della Valle, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Stefano Longhi & Guglielmo Lanzani

  2. Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Giovanni Pascoli, 70/3, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Scotognella, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, Guglielmo Lanzani & Francesco Tassone

  3. Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, P.zza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Giuseppe Della Valle, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi & Stefano Longhi

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Scotognella, F., Della Valle, G., Srimath Kandada, A.R. et al. Plasmonics in heavily-doped semiconductor nanocrystals. Eur. Phys. J. B 86, 154 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2013-40039-x

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