Gold nanoparticles on polarizable surfaces as raman scattering antennas

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6535-6546

  Chen, Shiuan Yeh ^a,b   Mock, Jack J ^a,b   Hill, Ryan T ^b   Chilkoti, Ashutosh ^a,b   Smith, David R ^a,b   Lazarides, Anne A ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark field scattering; Individual nanoparticles; Nanoantennas; Super radiance; Surface Plasmon; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

DARK-FIELD; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOANTENNAS; SURFACE PLASMON; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; QUARTZ; RAMAN SCATTERING; RESONANCE; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

ANTENNAS;

CARBOCYANINE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; IMPEDANCE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CARBOCYANINES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78649626674     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101644s     Document Type: Article

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