Research Article

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Heating of Nanoparticles: Comparison of Theoretical Approaches

Figure 3

(a) Electron temperature relaxation on the picosecond time scale. (b) Temperature time distributions for a gold nanoparticle predicted by OTM (solid curve) and TTM (dashed curve) after the 60 picoseconds laser pulse.
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