Aqueous-based synthesis of atomic gold clusters: Geometry and optical properties. Rath, S., Nozaki, S., Palagin, D., Matulis, V., Ivashkevich, O., & Maki, S. Applied Physics Letters, 97(5):053103, August, 2010.
Aqueous-based synthesis of atomic gold clusters: Geometry and optical properties [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Goldclusters synthesized by the solution-based growth technique have exhibited ultraviolet (UV) light emission with nearly zero Stokes shift. Atomic arrangement decided optical properties of the Au microclusters have been studied extensively. In addition to the time-of-flightmass spectra, the comparison of experimental and theoretical emission and absorption spectra confirms the presence of Au 8 clusters with the planar hexagon + 1 -shaped geometry. The observed UV emission is attributed to the transition from the highest occupied to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of the hexagon + 1 structured Au 8 clusters.
@article{rath_aqueous-based_2010,
	title = {Aqueous-based synthesis of atomic gold clusters: {Geometry} and optical properties},
	volume = {97},
	issn = {0003-6951, 1077-3118},
	shorttitle = {Aqueous-based synthesis of atomic gold clusters},
	url = {http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/97/5/10.1063/1.3467261},
	doi = {10.1063/1.3467261},
	abstract = {Goldclusters synthesized by the solution-based growth technique have exhibited ultraviolet (UV) light emission with nearly zero Stokes shift. Atomic arrangement decided optical properties of the Au microclusters have been studied extensively. In addition to the time-of-flightmass spectra, the comparison of experimental and theoretical emission and absorption spectra confirms the presence of Au 8 clusters with the planar hexagon + 1 -shaped geometry. The observed UV emission is attributed to the transition from the highest occupied to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of the hexagon + 1 structured Au 8 clusters.},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2014-04-03TZ},
	journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
	author = {Rath, S. and Nozaki, S. and Palagin, D. and Matulis, V. and Ivashkevich, O. and Maki, S.},
	month = aug,
	year = {2010},
	keywords = {ABSORPTION SPECTRA, Cluster spectra, Emission spectra, Optical absorption, gold},
	pages = {053103}
}

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