Slow fluctuations in enhanced Raman scattering and surface roughness relaxation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages

  Lukatsky, D B ^a   Haran, G ^a   Safran, S A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON GAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SALTS; SILVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

BLINKING; SLOW FLUCTUATIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS RELAXATION; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 37649027015     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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