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Kamp, Aron (2016)

Simulation of a random walk around a gold nanorod / Detection of vapor nanobubbles around a continuously heated gold nanosphere

Bachelor thesis | Natuurkunde (BSc)

This thesis consists of two parts, one part describes the heating of a gold nanosphere and the forming of a vapor bubble as a result of this. The first part consist mainly of theory and there are no measurement results to support the theory, the second part describes a Matlab simulation of a random walk of a ATTO 647N molecule close to a gold nanorod that is being placed in an electromagnetic field. The simulation uses the MNPBEM toolbox to calculate the electric field generated by the gold nanorod and a random walk for the movement of the molecule.

Matlab

Simulation

Gold

Nanosphere

Vapor

Bubble

Heating

Author

Kamp, Aron

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Supervisors

Orrit, M.A.G.J.

ECTS Credits

3

Language

en