Electromagnetic Enhancement Effect Caused by Aggregation on SERS-Active Gold Nanoparticles

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-124

  Mock, J J ^a   Norton, S M ^b   Chen, S Y ^a   Lazarides, A A ^a   Smith, D R ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Oxonica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmon (LSP); Near field coupling; Surface plasmon (SP); Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953029716     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9176-1     Document Type: Article

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