Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using gold-coated horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  He, X N ^a   Gao, Y ^a   Mahjouri Samani, M ^a   Black, P N ^a   Allen, J ^a   Mitchell, M ^a   Xiong, W ^a   Zhou, Y S ^a   Jiang, L ^b   Lu, Y F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; E-FIELD; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; GOLD-COATED; INCIDENT LASER; LIMITS OF DETECTION; MICRO-ALGAE; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; RAMAN SIGNAL; RHODAMINE 6G; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGAE; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEUTERIUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD COATINGS; MICROORGANISMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SUBSTRATES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROALGA; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROALGAE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84860505029     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/20/205702     Document Type: Article

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