https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170095
Spectral hole burning in absorption profiles of metal nanoparticles prepared by laser assisted growth
Towards the systematic investigation of the size dependent decay time of surface plasmon excitation
Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Physik, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, D-34132 Kassel, Germany
Corresponding author: a Hendrich@physik.uni-kassel.de
Received:
29
November
2000
Published online: 15 September 2001
We have combined two novel methods, i.e. persistent spectral hole burning and laser assisted growth, to
measure the decay time T2 of surface plasmon excitation in metal nanoparticles of different size at constant well
defined shape. The measured values of T2 amount to 
and are independent of size for diameters
ranging from 8 to 
.
PACS: 78.66.Bz – Metals and metallic alloys / 61.46.+w – Nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals / 71.45.Gm – Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic response functions, plasmons
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
