Figure 3
From: Surface Plasmon Damping Quantified with an Electron Nanoprobe
Quality factors and Dephasing times for gold particles with varying diameters.
(a) The Q-factor and (b) T2, as a function of plasmon energy for gold nanorods (blue filled symbols) and nanocrosses (red open symbols); error bars indicate the standard deviation. The STEM annular dark field images in the legend show a few examples of studied particles, all scaled to be mutually comparable in size. Simulations are for 25, 30 and 35 nm wide gold rods (grey dotted lines), calculated from earlier published Boundary Element Method results24.
