Effects of quantum tunneling in metal nanogap on surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Mao, Li ^a   Li, Zhipeng ^a   Wu, Biao ^a   Xu, Hongxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL FIELDS; METAL NANOGAP; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; QUANTUM TUNNELING; QUANTUM TUNNELING EFFECTS; SILVER PLATES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEPARATION; SILVER;

TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

EID: 67649197662     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3155157     Document Type: Article

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