Plasmonic control of the shape of the raman spectrum of a single molecule in a silver nanoparticle dimer

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1988-1994

  Dadosh, T ^a   Sperling, J ^a   Bryant, G W ^b   Breslow, R ^c   Shegai, T ^a   Dyshel, M ^a   Haran, G ^a   Bar Joseph, I ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimers; Nanoparticles; SERS; Silver colloids; Single molecule; Surface plasmon; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

SERS; SILVER COLLOIDS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SURFACE PLASMON; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; DIMERS; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SURFACES;

SILVER;

EID: 68649105051     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900422w     Document Type: Article

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