Coupling discrete metal nanoparticles to photonic crystal surface resonant modes and application to Raman spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4300-4309

  Kim, Seok Min ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Cunningham, Brian T ^c  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b MOLECULAR IMPRINTS INC   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ETHANE; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SUBSTRATES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EVANESCENT FIELDS; LAYER THICKNESS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; PLASMON RESONANCES; PYRIDYL; RAMAN SIGNAL; RESONANT MODE; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMONS;

METALS;

EID: 77749337748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004300     Document Type: Article

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