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Phys Rev Lett. 2000 Apr 24;84(17):3994-7. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3994.

Photon emission spectroscopy of individual oxide-supported silver clusters in a scanning tunneling microscope.

Physical review letters

Nilius, Ernst, Freund

Affiliations

  1. Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 11019258 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3994

Abstract

Photon emission spectra of individual alumina-supported silver clusters have been measured for the first time. The light emission stimulated by electron injection from the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope can be assigned to the (1,0) mode of the Mie-plasmon resonance in small silver particles. As cluster sizes decrease, the resonance position shifts to higher energies and the linewidth increases. In the size range examined (1.5-12 nm), intrinsic size effects are discussed as possible origins for the observed size dependence of the Mie resonance.

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