Optically addressable selective nanovolume Raman spectroscopy of nanoparticles

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-93

  Athalin, Han ^a   Lefrant, Serge ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES MATÉRIAUX JEAN ROUXEL   (France)

Author keywords

Colocalising nanoparticles; Nanofocusing; Nanovolume Raman scattering; Near field; Selective spectroscopy; Signal processing colloids

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS;

COLOCALISING NANOPARTICLES; NANOVOLUME RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); SELECTIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 17444412285     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-004-7773-7     Document Type: Article

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