Gold nanoparticle chains confine light to the nanoscale
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold nanoparticles aligned and then fused into long chains can be used to confine light energy down to the nanometer scale while allowing its long-range propagation. Their work was published online on the website of Nature Materials on 26 October.