Session S44: Focus Session: Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanostructures

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Sponsoring Units: DMP
Chair: Emily Townsend, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Colorado Convention Center - 507


Wednesday, March 7, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

S44.00001: Au Bowtie Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Daniel Ward , Nathaniel Grady , Carly Levin , Naomi Halas , Douglas Natelson

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

S44.00002: Optical Response of Metal Nanoantennas to Femtosecond Pulses
Sushmita Biswas , Albert Heberle

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

S44.00003: Two-Photon Vibrational Spectroscopy using local optical fields of gold and silver nanostructures
Katrin Kneipp , Janina Kneipp , Harald Kneipp

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

S44.00004: Interparticle and Interfacial Effects on Second Harmonic Generation from Gold Nanoparticles
Matthew McMahon , Davon Ferrara , Richard Haglund

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

S44.00005: Strong Field Enhancement in a Scanning Nanogap for Infrared Imaging of Single Nanoparticles (lambda/1000)
Javier Aizpurua , Antonija Cvitkovic , Nenad Ocelic , Reinhard Guckenberger , Rainer Hillenbrand

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

S44.00006: Enhanced thermal emission from individual antenna-like nanoheaters
Snorri Ingvarsson , James A. Lacey , Hendrik F. Hamann

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

S44.00007: Plasmon Assisted Heating of Metal Nanoparticles
Adam Bushmaker , David Boyd , Rajay Kumar , David Goodwin , Stephen Cronin

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

S44.00008: Modifying the visual appearance of metal nanoparticle composites by infrared laser annealing
Andrej Halabica , J. C. Indrobo , R. H. Magruder III , R. F. Haglund Jr. , J. M. Epp , S. Rashkeev , L. A. Boatner , S. J. Pennycook , S. T. Pantelides

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

S44.00009: First Principles Absorption Spectra of Si$_n$ ($n=20-28$) Clusters: TDLDA versus Predictions from Mie Theory
Koblar Jackson , Juan C. Idrobo , Serdar Ogut , Mingli Yang

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

S44.00010: Optical Properties of Cage Versus Space-Filling Gold Clusters: A TDLDA Study
Weronika Walkosz , Juan C. Idrobo , Serdar Ogut , Jinlan Wang , Julius Jellinek

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:30PM - 4:42PM

S44.00011: Isomeric Forms, Polarizabilities, and Optical Absorption Spectra of Ag$_{11}$
Serdar Ogut , Juan C. Idrobo , Karoly Nemeth , Julius Jellinek

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:42PM - 4:54PM

S44.00012: Preparation and control of optical properties of plasmonic crystals using colloidal crystals as templates.
Zhen-Lin Wang , Peng Zhan , Nai-Ben Ming

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:54PM - 5:06PM

S44.00013: Optical Metamaterials at Near IR Range Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography
E. Kim , W. Wu , E. Ponizovskaya , Y.R. Shen , A. Bratkovsky , S.Y. Wang

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
5:06PM - 5:18PM

S44.00014: Nanoparticles in alumina: Microscopy and Theory
Juan C. Idrobo , Andrej Halabica , Sergey Rashkeev , Michael V. Glazoff , Lynn A. Boatner , Richard F. Haglund , Stephen. J. Pennycook , Sokrates T. Pantelides

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
5:18PM - 5:30PM

S44.00015: Probing the Surface Guided Modes from Infrared to Ultraviolet by Fast Electrons
Aycan Yurtsever , Martin Couillard , David A. Muller

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