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. 2020 Jul 19;10(7):1411. doi: 10.3390/nano10071411

Table 1.

External and the best-fitted parameters of the function εm which describes the free-electrons contribution and the frequency-dependent contribution of the interband transitions in gold and silver.

εm External Fitted Nr
Interband Contribution Free electrons Contribution
ωc [eV] εup εlo S [1/eV] A [eV2] (γL)2 [eV2] ωp [eV] γ [eV]
Au 2.4 5.6 - 5.87 7.78 0.977 8.6 0.072 7
Ag 3.9 6.37–0.54 [1/eV]·ω 0.1 7.90 4.02 1.00 9.0 0.020 8