Surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy with gold strip gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 9005-9010

  Wang, Tao ^a   Nguyen, Vu Hoa ^a   Buchenauer, Andreas ^a   Schnakenberg, Uwe ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

EASY FABRICATION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GRATING PERIODS; STRIP GRATING; SURFACE ENHANCED INFRARED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE-ENHANCED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875972789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.009005     Document Type: Article

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