Near-field and confocal surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 162-166

  Anger, P ^a,b   Feltz, A ^b   Berghaus, T ^b   Meixner, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b Omicron Nanotechnology GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Low temperature; Nano particles; Near field optical microscopy; Rhodamine 6G; Surface enhanced resonance Raman effect

Indexed keywords

LASER EXCITATION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; NANOPARTI-CLES; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NEAR FIELDS; RESONANCE RAMAN; RHODAMINE 6G; SURFACE ENHANCED RESONANCE; SURFACE-ENHANCED RESONANCE RAMAN EFFECT; SURFACE-ENHANCED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

NANOPARTICLE; RHODAMINE; SILVER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICE; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MICROSCOPE; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0345701396     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01089.x     Document Type: Article

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