Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with silver-coated optical fiber probe in reflection mode for investigating multiwall carbon nanotubes

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1845-1848

  Wang, Rui ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Hao, Fenghuan ^a   Zhang, Mingqian ^a   Tian, Qian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBES; SILVER; SPECTROMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; YARN;

COATED OPTICAL FIBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; OPTICAL FIBER PROBE; RAMAN SPECTROMETERS; SHEAR FORCE MICROSCOPE; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 77955637252     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001845     Document Type: Article

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