Determinant role of size-dependent electron relaxation processes in the nonlinear luminescence emission of resonantly excited gold nanorods

Céline Molinaro, Sylvie Marguet, Ludovic Douillard +2

The two-photon luminescence (TPL) of gold nanoparticles (NP) was shown to result from the excitation of hot carriers, the plasmonic NP resonances playing an important role both for…