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Evidence of curvature effects on the interaction and binding of silver clusters on folded graphitic surfaces has been shown from both experiment and theory. Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations within the local density and…
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We report the enhancement of the optical second harmonic signal in non-centrosymmetric semiconductor CdS quantum dots, when they are placed in close contact with isolated silver nanoparticles. The intensity enhancement is about 1000. We…
In this paper, we show what we can learn from the CEBAF experiments on spin-structure functions, and the transition from the Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov sum rule in the real photon limit to the spin dependent sum rules in the deep inelastic…
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The measurement of in-plane birefringence ($\Delta{n}$) of ultrathin film is challenging due to a significant deviation of physical properties of materials in ultrathin regime as compared to that in bulk state. Surface plasmon resonance…
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Electron-electron scattering is one of the most important hot carrier relaxation pathways in plasmonic nanoparticles. Understanding the dynamics of this scattering process and the effects of this on excited state dephasing and relaxation is…
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The plasmon resonances (modes) of a metal nanostructure can be defined as a dipole, a quadrupole, or high-order modes depending on the surface charge distribution induced by the incident field. In a non-symmetrical environment or clusters,…
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We present an ab initio method for eletcronic structure calculations, which accounts for the interaction of electrons and magnons in ferromagnets. While it is based on a many body perturbation theory we approximate numerically complex…
Spin correlations in an interacting electron liquid are studied in the high-frequency limit and in both two and three dimensions. The third-moment sum rule is evaluated and used to derive exact limiting forms (at both long- and…
We present the simulation, fabrication and optical characterization of plasmonic gold bowtie nanoantennas on a semiconducting GaAs substrate as geometrical parameters such as size, feed gap, height and polarization of the incident light are…
I present a direct and intuitive eigenmode method that evaluates the near-field enhancement around the surface of metallic nanoparticles of arbitrary shape. The method is based on the boundary integral equation in the electrostatic limit.…
We present a theoretical approach to calculate the {\it local} absorption spectrum of excitons confined in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using the density-matrix formalism, we derive a microscopic expression for the non-local…