Dispersion in the SERS enhancement with silver nanocube dimers

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5763-5772

  Lee, Seung Yong ^a   Hung, Ling ^a   Lang, Garrett S ^a   Cornett, Jane E ^a   Mayergoyz, Isaak D ^a,b   Rabin, Oded ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

nanocube; plasmon; Raman scattering; resonance; self assembly; silver

Indexed keywords

GAP DISTANCES; LASER POLARIZATION; MATCHING CONDITION; NANOCUBES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; PHOTON FREQUENCY; PLASMON RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; RESONANCE FREQUENCY SHIFT; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SERS ENHANCEMENT; SERS SUBSTRATE; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SITE TO SITES;

DIMERS; DISPERSIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SUBSTRATES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; LASERS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78049325892     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101484a     Document Type: Article

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