Concentric necklace nanolenses for optical near-field focusing and enhancement

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4341-4348

  Pasquale, Alyssa J ^a   Reinhard, Björn M ^b   Negro, Luca Dal ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam lithography; Nanolens; Nanoparticles; Plasmonic arrays; Plasmonics; SERS; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

NANOLENS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; SERS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DIMERS;

EID: 84864716324     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301000u     Document Type: Article

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