Nanophotonic crescent moon structures with sharp edge for ultrasensitive biomolecular detection by local electromagnetic field enhancement effect

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-124

  Yu, Lu ^a   Liu, Gang L ^a   Kim, Jaeyoun ^a   Mejia, Yara X ^a   Lee, Luke P ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULAR DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NANOPHOTONIC CRESCENT MOON STRUCTURES; SHARP EDGE;

CELLULAR ARRAYS; EDGE DETECTION; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

FLUORESCENT DYE; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE 6G;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GOLD; LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; RHODAMINES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 12844275925     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048232+     Document Type: Article

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