Plasmonic focusing in rod-sheath heteronanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-92

  Chen, Xiaodong ^a   Li, Shuzhou ^a   Xue, Can ^a   Banholzer, Matthew J ^a   Schatz, George C ^a   Mirkin, Chad A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrochemical deposition; Heteronanostructure; Plasmonics; SERS

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ETCHINGS; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; FIELD ENHANCEMENTS; HETERO-NANOSTRUCTURES; HETERONANOSTRUCTURE; JUNCTION STRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; RAMAN HOT-SPOTS; SERS; SERS SUBSTRATES; STAND -ALONE; TEMPLATED SYNTHESIS;

ELECTRODEPOSITION; NANOSTRUCTURES; REDUCTION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PLASMONS;

EID: 61849120290     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800695u     Document Type: Article

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