Nanopillar array on a fiber facet for highly sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24819-24826

  Yang, Xuan ^a,b   Ileri, Nazar ^a   Larson, Cindy C ^a   Carlson, Thomas C ^a   Britten, Jerald A ^a   Chang, Allan S P ^a   Gu, Claire ^b   Bond, Tiziana C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXCITATION LASERS; FRONT END; IN-SITU; INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR DETECTION; NANO-PILLAR ARRAYS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); TOLUENE VAPORS;

ETHYLENE; LASER EXCITATION; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; TOLUENE; VAPORS;

PROBES;

EID: 84868227539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024819     Document Type: Article

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