Research Article

Theoretical Analysis of the Optical Response of Silicon/Silica/Gold Multishell Nanoparticles in Biological Tissue

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The absorption efficiency Qabs (a) and scattering efficiency Qsca (b) of a single Si/Au nanoshell in biological tissues as a function of the diameter D and the incident light wavelength λ. The vertical dashed lines delimit the optical windows of biological tissues.
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