A Shape-Engineered Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Optical Fiber Sensor Working from the Visible to the Near-Infrared

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-23

  Foti, Antonino ^a   D'Andrea, Cristiano ^a   Bonaccorso, Francesco ^a,b   Lanza, Maurizio ^a   Calogero, Giuseppe ^a   Messina, Elena ^a   Maragò, Onofrio Maria ^a   Fazio, Barbara ^a   Gucciardi, Pietro Giuseppe ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Label free detection; Molecular detection; Optical fiber sensors; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874964270     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9371-3     Document Type: Article

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