Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on a flat graphene surface

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9281-9286

  Xu, Weigao ^a   Ling, Xi ^a   Xiao, Jiaqi ^a   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^b,d   Kong, Jing ^b   Xu, Hongxing ^c   Liu, Zhongfan ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b USA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application; Atomically smooth substrate; Mediator; Metal molecule isolation; Signal fluctuation

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NANOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84862175887     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205478109     Document Type: Article

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