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  title info:
    title: Liganded silver and gold quantum clusters. Towards a new class of nonlinear optical nanomaterials
  name:
    name part: Antoine, Rodolphe.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Bonačić-Koutecký, Vlasta.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 82 p. 35 illus., 30 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Metallic quantum clusters belonging to intermediate size regime between two and few hundred of atoms, represent unique building blocks of new materials. Nonlinear optical (NLO) characteristics of liganded silver and gold quantum clusters reveal remarkable features which can be tuned by size, structure and composition. The two-photon absorption cross sections of liganded noble metal quantum clusters are several orders of magnitude larger than that of commercially-available dyes. Therefore, the fundamental photophysical understanding of those two-photon processes in liganded clusters with few metal atoms deserve special attention, in particularly in context of finding the mechanisms responsible for these properties. A broad range of state-of-the-art experimental methods to determine nonlinear optical properties (i.e. two-photon absorption, two-photon excited fluorescence and second harmonic generation) of quantum clusters are presented. The experimental setup and underlying physical concepts are described. Furthermore, the theoretical models and corresponding approaches are used allowing to explain the experimental observations and simultaneously offering the possibility to deduce the key factors necessary to design new classes of nanoclusters with large NLO properties. Additionally, selected studied cases of liganded silver and gold quantum clusters with focus on their NLO properties will be presented as promising candidates for applications in imaging techniques such as fluorescence microscopy or Second-Harmonic Generation microscopy. .
  table of contents: 1 Introduction.Background -- 2 Microscopic theory of nonlinear optics for two-photon processes -- 3 Computational Evaluation of Optical Nonlinearities -- 4 Liganded noble metal nanoclusters as new NLO chromophores -- 5 Measurement Techniques of Optical Nonlinearities: Two-photon -- 6 Case studies: Experimental and theoretical -- 7 Summary and future directions -- Index.
  note: by Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký.
  subject:
    topic: Optical materials
  subject:
    topic: Electronic materials
  subject:
    topic: Lasers
  subject:
    topic: Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
  subject:
    topic: Nanoscale science
  subject:
    topic: Nanoscience
  subject:
    topic: Nanostructures
  subject:
    topic: Nanotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Optical and Electronic Materials
  subject:
    topic: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Nanoscale Science and Technology
  subject:
    topic: Nanotechnology and Microengineering
  classification: TA1750-1750.22
  classification: 620.11295
  classification: 620.11297
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Materials
  identifier: 9783319647432
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64743-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 171004
    record change date: 20191022102351.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-64743-2