Surface plasmon enhanced non-linear optical response of gold nanoparticles at the air/toluene interface

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Rodolphe Antoine, Pierre F. Brevet, Hubert H. Girault, Rodolphe Antoine, Pierre F. Brevet, Donald Bethell and David J. Schiffrin


Abstract

Colloidal gold nanoparticles in toluene solution, synthesised using a two-phase liquid/liquid system, display second harmonic generation, wavelength analysis of which indicates the narrow frequency band of the gold surface plasmon for nanoparticles present at the air/toluene interface.


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