Nanostructure design for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy -prospects and limits

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Xiao, Sanshui ^a   Mortensen, Niels Asger ^a   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Plasmonics; SERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949177288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2008.08022     Document Type: Article

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