Surface-enhanced Raman imaging of fractal shaped periodic metal nanostructures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2370-2376

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Novikov, Sergey M ^a,b   Albrektsen, Ole ^a   Nielsen, Michael G ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACES;

BRIGHT SPOTS; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GOLD FILM; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH RESOLUTION; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; POLARIZED EXCITATION; RAMAN LINES; RAMAN MICROSCOPY; REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; RHODAMINE 6G; SERS ENHANCEMENT; SQUARE ARRAY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 73849112127     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.002370     Document Type: Article

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