Revealing the spatial distribution of the site enhancement for the surface enhanced Raman scattering on the regular nanoparticle arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13974-13981

  Chien, Fan Ching ^a   Huang, Wen Yen ^a   Shiu, Jau Ye ^a   Kuo, Chiung Wen ^a   Chen, Peilin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECT DENSITY; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ACTIVE SITE; CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; OXYGEN PLASMAS; RAMAN SIGNAL; SILVER FILM; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349135236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013974     Document Type: Article

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