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Evaluating Plasmonic Transport in Current-carrying Silver Nanowires
Published on: December 11, 2013
Water-mediated polyol synthesis of pencil-like sharp silver nanowires suitable for nonlinear plasmonics
Tomoko Inose1, Shuichi Toyouchi2, Gang Lu3
1Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, N20W10, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan. hiroshi.ujii@es.hokudai.ac.jp.
Abstract:
We report a simple method to control the end shape of silver nanowires by adding pure water in the conventional polyol synthesis. The use of 0.2-0.4% (v/v) water in ethylene glycol as a solvent provides pencil-like silver nanowires with sharp ends in a high yield. We have demonstrated remote excitation of SHG on the sharp nanowires, promising a point light source for super resolution microscopy.
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