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Theoretical study of the optical absorption properties of Au-Ag bimetallic nanospheres

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Abstract

The dependence of nonlinear optical response properties of bimetallic alloying and core-shell structure spherical nanoparticles was investigated as a function of relative composition. Numerical calculations based on Drude model and quasi-static theory were developed to describe these absorption properties. With the increasing gold content, the absorption peaks of both alloying Au-Ag nanospheres and core-shell structure nanospheres red-shift from 402 to 526 nm in a nonlinear way. Furthermore, the linearity of alloying nanospheres is better than that of core-shell structure model. In core-shell structure nanospheres, the shell composition characters play a more important role to influence the optical properties of the bimetallic nanoparticles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)296-301
Number of pages6
JournalPhysica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Volume27
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2005

Keywords

  • Absorption
  • Core-shell structure
  • Gold
  • Nanospheres
  • Quasi-static theory
  • Silver

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