Highly stable, protected plasmonic nanostructures for tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 8158-8161

  Barrios, Carlos A ^a   Malkovskiy, Andrey V ^a   Kisliuk, Alexander M ^a   Sokolov, Alexei P ^a   Foster, Mark D ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRA-THIN;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEAR RESISTANCE;

PROTECTIVE COATINGS;

EID: 67049118339     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp8098126     Document Type: Article

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