Adiabatic tip-plasmon focusing for nano-raman spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3427-3432

  Berweger, Samuel ^a,c   Atkin, Joanna M ^a,c   Olmon, Robert L ^a,b,c   Raschke, Markus B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING ELEMENT; ENHANCED CONTRAST; FAR-FIELD; NANO SCALE; NANO-FOCUSING; NANOSCALE EXCITATIONS; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-IR; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL MODE-MATCHING; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMONIC; SCANNING PROBES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SURFACE MOLECULES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TIP APEX; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TWO STAGE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; PROBES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78650388013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz101289z     Document Type: Article

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