<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maillard, Mathieu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pileni, Marie-Paule</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Link, Stephan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">El-Sayed, Mostafa A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Picosecond Self-Induced Thermal Lensing from Colloidal Silver Nanodisks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of Physical Chemistry B</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J. Phys. Chem. B</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp049943z</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">American Chemical Society</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">108</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5230 - 5234</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1520-6106</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The optical and nonradiative relaxation dynamics of 5 nm 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 (&gt;20 ps), a rise rather 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.The optical and nonradiative relaxation dynamics of 5 nm 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 (&gt;20 ps), a rise rather 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.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">doi: 10.1021/jp049943z</style></notes><electronic-resource-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1021/jp049943z</style></electronic-resource-num></record></records></xml>