Gold mesoflower arrays with sub-10nm intraparticle gaps for highly sensitive and repeatable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Tian, Cuifeng ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Jin, Jiehong ^b   Lebedkin, Sergei ^b   Huang, Cheng ^b   You, Hongjun ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Wang, Liqun ^a   Song, Xiaoping ^a   Ding, Bingjun ^a   Barczewski, Matthias ^b   Schimmel, Thomas ^b   Fang, Jixiang ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULAR SENSING; FACIAL SYNTHESIS; HIGH SPATIAL DENSITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HOT SPOT; IN-SITU; INTRAPARTICLE; IRON SUBSTRATES; LOW COSTS; MESOSTRUCTURES; NOVEL STRATEGIES; RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TOPDOWN;

GOLD; IRON ANALYSIS;

SUBSTRATES;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84859308204     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/16/165604     Document Type: Article

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