SERS-active substrate based on gap surface plasmon polaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17234-17241

  Kim, Hyun Chul ^a   Cheng, Xing ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

EASY FABRICATION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GAP SURFACE PLASMONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; OPTICAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; SERS-ACTIVE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SUBSTRATES;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70349696677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017234     Document Type: Article

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