title: Optical properties of Au/Ag core/shell nanoshuttles.
abstract: Au/Ag nanoshuttles with sharp tips at both ends have been synthesized in glycine solution by chemically depositing silver on gold nanorods. Strong local field in the Au/Ag nanoshuttles enhanced by longitudinal surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) were investigated by theoretical calculations and experimental measurements. At the corresponding LSPR wavelengths, the extinction cross section and nonlinear refraction of the Au/Ag nanoshuttles are about 1.5 and 8.0 times of those of the original Au nanorods, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Acoustic and Photonic Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Z S
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: K Y
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D008956:Models, Chemical; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D006046:Gold