Plasmonic Coupling Effect in Ag Nanocap-Nanohole Pairs for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-231

  Wen, Xiaolei ^a   Xi, Zheng ^a   Jiao, Xiaojin ^b   Yu, Wenhai ^a   Xue, Guosheng ^a   Zhang, Douguo ^a   Lu, Yonghua ^a   Wang, Pei ^a   Blair, Steve ^b   Ming, Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot spot; Nanoscale gap; Plasmonic interaction; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877592028     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9379-8     Document Type: Article

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