Engineering metal adhesion layers that do not deteriorate plasmon resonances

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2751-2757

  Siegfried, Thomas ^a   Ekinci, Yasin ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^b   Sigg, Hans ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

adhesion layer; biosensors; damping; localized plasmon resonance; near field simulation; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

ADHESION LAYER; ELECTROMAGNETIC NEAR FIELDS; LOCALIZED PLASMON RESONANCE; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NEAR-FIELD SIMULATION; RESONANT PLASMON MODES; SELECTIVE DEPOSITION; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

BIOSENSORS; DAMPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMONS; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ADHESION;

EID: 84875652715     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4002006     Document Type: Article

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