Optical nanocrystallography with tip-enhanced phonon Raman spectroscopy

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 496-499

  Berweger, Samuel ^a   Neacsu, Catalin C ^a   Mao, Yuanbing ^b   Zhou, Hongjun ^b   Wong, Stanislaus S ^b,c   Raschke, Markus B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROELECTRICITY; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL SPECIFICITY; DOMAIN IDENTIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; NANOCRYSTALLOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL INHOMOGENEITIES; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL PHONONS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; NANOCRYSTAL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; NANOIMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 68949194526     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.190     Document Type: Article

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