Removal of surface contamination and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) from silver (Ag) nanorod substrates by plasma cleaning with argon

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-74

  Negri, Pierre ^a   Marotta, Nicole E ^b   Bottomley, Lawrence A ^b   Dluhy, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon plasma; Nanoparticles; Plasma cleaning; SAMS; Self assembled monolayers; SERS; Surface contamination; Surface enhanced raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARGON PLASMAS; PLASMA CLEANING; SAMS; SERS; SURFACE CONTAMINATION; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ARGON; CLEANING; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASMAS; POLLUTION DETECTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SILVER; SURFACES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 79251489817     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/10-06037     Document Type: Article

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