Optimizing detection sensitivity on surface-enhanced Raman scattering of transition-metal electrodes with confocal Raman microscopy

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419-427

  Ren, Bin ^a   Lin, Xu Feng ^a   Jiang, Yu Xiong ^a   Cao, Pei Gen ^a   Xie, Yong ^a   Huang, Qun Jian ^a   Tian, Zhong Qun ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Confocal; Iron; Nickel; Platinum; Raman spectroscopy; Rhodium; SERS; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

COBALT; ELECTRODES; IRON; NICKEL; NOTCH FILTERS; PLATINUM; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RHODIUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; TRANSITION METAL ELECTRODES;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037738541     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/00037020360625961     Document Type: Article

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