A route to increase the enhancement factor of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) via a high density Ag flower-like pattern

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Fang, Jixiang ^a   Yi, Yan ^a   Ding, Bingjun ^a   Song, Xiaoping ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURES; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FLOWER-LIKE PATTERN; HOT SPOT CHARACTERISTIC;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 41649105662     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2895639     Document Type: Article

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