Temperature dependence of the homogeneous broadening of resonant Raman peaks measured by single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3002-3005

  Artur, Camille ^a   Le Ru, Eric C ^a   Etchegoin, Pablo G ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED MOLECULES; ANHARMONIC COUPLINGS; ANHARMONIC INTERACTION; DEBYE FREQUENCIES; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY VARIATION; HOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; LOW TEMPERATURES; RAMAN PEAK; RESONANT RAMAN; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES;

RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 82655180554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2013787     Document Type: Article

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