Near-Field Optical Analysis of Plasmonic Nano-Probes for Top-Illumination Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 359-367

  Mishra, Neha ^a   Kumar, G V Pavan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Near field; Optical antenna; SERS; SNOM; TERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864112731     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9316-2     Document Type: Article

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