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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 15, Pages 9157-9165Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr02185a
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- University of Toulouse
- Region Midi-Pyrenees [ANR-11-IDEX-0002-02, ANR-10-LABX-0037-NEXT]
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An experimental analysis of all elementary excitations - phonons and electron-holes - in gold nanocrystals has been performed using plasmon resonance Raman scattering. Assemblies of monodisperse, single-crystalline gold nanoparticles, specific substrates and specific experimental configurations have been used. Three types of excitations are successively analyzed: collective quasi-acoustical vibrations of the particles (Lamb's modes), electron-hole excitations (creating the so-called background in surface-enhanced Raman scattering) and ensembles of atomic vibrations (bulk phonons). The experimental vibrational density of states extracted from the latter contribution is successfully compared with theoretical estimations performed using atomic simulations. The dominant role of surface atoms over the core ones on lattice dynamics is clearly demonstrated. Consequences on the thermodynamic properties of nanocrystals such as the decrease of the characteristic Debye temperature are also considered.
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