Transient enhancement and spectral narrowing of the photothermal effect of plasmonic nanoparticles under pulsed excitation.

Lukianova-Hleb, Ekaterina Y; Volkov, Alexey N; Wu, Xiangwei; Lapotko, Dmitri O · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The transient 100-fold enhancement and spectral narrowing to 2 nm of the photothermal conversion by solid gold nanospheres under near-infrared excitation with a short laser pulse is reported. This non-stationary effect was observed for a wide range of optical fluences starting from 10 mJ cm(-2) for single nanospheres, their ensembles and aggregated clusters in water, in vitro and in vivo.

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