Highly effective and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates based on Ag pyramidal arrays

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 159-166

  Wang, Yandong ^a   Lu, Nan ^a   Wang, Wentao ^a   Liu, Lingxiao ^a   Feng, Lei ^a   Zeng, Zhoufang ^a   Li, Haibo ^a   Xu, Weiqing ^a   Wu, Zijian ^b   Hu, Wei ^b   Lu, Yanqing ^b   Chi, Lifeng ^a,c  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ag pyramidal array; etching; nanosphere lithography; reproducibility; SERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874935333     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0291-0     Document Type: Article

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