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It has been previously established that the surface plasmon of small spherical silver particles, which are embedded in a noble gas matrix, shifts to higher energies (blue shift) as the mean diameterD of the particles decreases (100 Å>D>20 Å). This blue shift has also been found for supported silver particles, and quite recently we observed it by elastic light scattering in the gas phase. This latter experiment proves unambiguously that the blue shift in small silver particles is not induced by interactions with the environment, the presence of which is clearly recognized in less inert matrices such as O2 or CO. From self-consistent calculations of the surface response of planar jellium surfaces one would expect a red shift, which is also directly confirmed by a few calculations for selected jellium spheres. The contradiction between the observed blue shift for small particles and the predicted red shift for jellium spheres disappears, if one accounts for thed-electrons of silver in a very simple approximation.
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Charlé, K.P., Schulze, W. & Winter, B. The size dependent shift of the surface plasmon absorption band of small spherical metal particles. Z Phys D - Atoms, Molecules and Clusters 12, 471–475 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01427000
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