Fabrication and evolution of multilayer silver nanofilms for surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensing of arsenate

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hao, Jumin ^a   Han, Mei Juan ^a   Xu, Zhonghou ^a   Li, Jinwei ^a   Meng, Xiaoguang ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; GLASS; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE SCATTERING; OPTIMIZATION; SILVER;

ACTIVE SUBSTRATES; AG NANOPARTICLE; BIOMOLECULAR SENSING; ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION PROCESS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SILVER NANOFILMS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); AG FILMS; DOUBLE LAYERS; GLASS SLIDES; GLASS SURFACES; NANO FILMS; PEAK HEIGHT; SERS SPECTRUM; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84255183871     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-263     Document Type: Article

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