Two-dimensional combinatorial investigation of raman and fluorescence enhancement in silver and gold sandwich substrates

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9588-9594

  Oates, T W H ^a,b   Shiratori, Y ^a   Noda, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA SUBSTRATES; AUTOMATED SCANNING; COMBINATORIAL METHOD; CONTINUOUS FILMS; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; GOLD AND SILVER; ISLAND FILMS; MATRIX; NANOPARTICLE FILMS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ORTHOGONAL GRADIENTS; RESONANT RAMAN; RHODAMINE 6G; SILVER FILM; SILVER SUBSTRATE; SPACER LAYER; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; SOLVENTS; SUBSTRATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SILVER;

EID: 67149107204     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp900436a     Document Type: Article

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