Gold surface with gold nitride-a surface enhanced Raman scattering active substrate

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Brieva, A C ^a   Alves, L ^a   Krishnamurthy, S ^a,b   Siller L ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FILM PREPARATION; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD METALLURGY; METALLIC FILMS; NITRIDES; NITROGEN PLASMA; PLASMA ETCHING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE SUBSTRATES; ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; CLUSTER ASSEMBLY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 62549102059     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3082871     Document Type: Article

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