Large-area topography analysis and near-field Raman spectroscopy using bent fibre probes

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-273

  Prikulis, J ^a   Murty, K V G K ^a   Olin, H ^a   Kall M ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colloidal silver nanoparticles; Near field optics; Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BENT FIBER; COLLOIDAL SILVER NANOPARTICLE; FAR-FIELD; FIBRE PROBE; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; NEAR-FIELD RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN IMAGING; RHODAMINE 6G; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLE; RHODAMINE 6G; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; FORCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038678026     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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