Convective assembly of linear gold nanoparticle arrays at the micron scale for surface enhanced Raman scattering

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1117-1128

  Qian, Lihua ^a,c   Mookherjee, Ronobir ^a,b  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

^b Advanced Technologies Academy   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Convective assembly; gold nanoparticle; pipette writing; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955137394     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0159-0     Document Type: Article

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