Single-molecule surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-87

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

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enhancement factor; Hot spot; SERS; Single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; HOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; HOTSPOTS; ISOTOPIC SUBSTITUTION; RAMAN PEAK; SINGLE MOLECULE SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE OBSERVATION; SUBFIELDS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84859922275     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143757     Document Type: Review

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