@article {1178,
	title = {Picosecond self-induced thermal lensing from colloidal silver nanodisks},
	journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry B},
	volume = {108},
	number = {17},
	year = {2004},
	note = {Maillard, M Pileni, MP Link, S El-Sayed, MA},
	month = {Apr},
	pages = {5230-5234},
	abstract = {The optical and nonradiative relaxation dynamics of 5 unit thick silver nanodisks with a 25 nm diameter have been investigated in an organic solvent by continuous wave (cw) and femtosecond pump-probe time-resolved spectroscopies. Several surface plasmon absorption bands are observed due to the disk shape of these particles. In the time-resolved experiments, the time dependence of the bleach resulting from femtosecond pulsed excitation is studied. On the 1-3 ps time scale, a decay resulting from electron-phonon relaxation is observed. On a longer time scale (>20 ps), a rise father than a further decay of the bleach intensity is observed. This is shown to result from the formation of a thermal lens due to the induced thermal gradients produced from heating the organic solvent by the phonon-phonon relaxation processes of the photoexcited nanodisks.},
	isbn = {1520-6106},
	doi = {10.1021/jp049943z},
	author = {Maillard, Mathieu and Pileni, Marie-Paule and Link, Stephan and El-Sayed, Mostafa A}
}
