Optimized vertical carbon nanotube forests for multiplex surface-enhanced raman scattering detection

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 3486-3492

  Goldberg Oppenheimer, Pola ^a   Hutter, Tanya ^a   Chen, Bingan ^a   Robertson, John ^a   Hofmann, Stephan ^a   Mahajan, Sumeet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLIC MATERIAL; MICROPATTERNED; NANO SCALE; NANOTUBE FORESTS; OPTICAL FIELD; PATTERNED ARRAYS; SERS ENHANCEMENT; SERS SUBSTRATE; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUBMICROMETERS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FORESTRY; MULTIPLEXING; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

SUBSTRATES;

ACOUSTICS; CARBON FIBERS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTRA; SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84870807734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301333r     Document Type: Article

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