Synthesis and Optical Properties of Noble Metal Nanoparticles for Biodetection - From Bioimaging to Biosensors: Noble Metal Nanoparticles in Biodetection - page 6

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Figure 1 . 1 Simulated absorption spectra of metallic nanorods. The
calculation was based on the classical electrostatic model
for prolate nanoparticles with 50 nm in length and 20 nm in
diameter.

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Figure 1 . 2 Simulated absorption spectra for the longitudinal surface
plasmon mode of metallic nanorods, a component to the full
spectra shown in Fig. 1.1.