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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanophotonics. 2013 Jan;2(2):83–101. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0026

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) Metallic nanoparticles can support localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), collective oscillations of the conduction electrons excited by light. (b) A color photograph of single metallic nanoparticles illuminated with white light. (c) Scattered light spectra measured from nanoparticles shown in (b). Images (b) and (c) adapted from Schutz.6