Plasmonic Interaction Between Silver Nano-Cubes and a Silver Ground Plane Studied by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 515-519

  Yi, Mingfang ^a,b   Zhang, Douguo ^a   Wang, Pei ^a   Jiao, Xiaojin ^c   Blair, Steve ^c   Wen, Xiaolei ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Lu, Yonghua ^a   Ming, Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Local electromagnetic field; Plasmonic interaction; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961167582     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9230-7     Document Type: Article

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