Fast fabrication of a Ag nanostructure substrate using the femtosecond laser for broad-band and tunable plasmonic enhancement

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5190-5197

  Tseng, Ming Lun ^a   Huang, Yao Wei ^a   Hsiao, Min Kai ^b   Huang, Hsin Wei ^a   Chen, Hao Ming ^a   Chen, Yu Lim ^a   Chu, Cheng Hung ^a   Chu, Nien Nan ^c   He, You Je ^a   Chang, Chia Min ^a   Lin, Wei Chih ^a   Huang, Ding Wei ^a   Chiang, Hai Pang ^b,c,d   Liu, Ru Shi ^a   Sun, Greg ^e   Tsai, Din Ping ^a,c,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorescence enhancement; hotspot; laser direct writing technique; plasmonics; SERS

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; HOT SPOT; LASER-DIRECT-WRITING TECHNIQUE; PLASMONICS; SERS;

NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; SILVER OXIDES; THIN FILMS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SUBSTRATES;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; LASERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862888241     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300947n     Document Type: Article

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