Challenge of false alarms in nitroaromatic explosive detection-a detection device based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 4367-4371

  Wackerbarth, Hainer ^a   Gundrum, Lars ^a   Salb, Christian ^a   Christou, Konstantin ^a   Viöl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ERRORS; EXPLOSIVES; KETONES; ODORS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE SCATTERING;

DETECTION DEVICE; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; NANOSTRUCTURED GOLD; NITROAROMATIC COMPOUND; NITROAROMATIC EXPLOSIVES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYMMETRIC STRETCHING;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 77955912141     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004367     Document Type: Article

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