Surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate with metallic nanogap array fabricated by etching the assembled polystyrene spheres array

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 11349-11355

  Xia, Liangping ^a,b   Yang, Zheng ^a,c   Yin, Shaoyun ^a   Guo, Wenrui ^b   Li, Shuhong ^c   Xie, Wanyi ^a   Huang, Deping ^a   Deng, Qiling ^a,b   Shi, Haofei ^a   Cui, Hongliang ^a   Du, Chunlei ^a  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GALLIUM ALLOYS; POLYSTYRENES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTROL SAMPLES; COUPLING RESONANCE; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SUBSTRATES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84878595759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011349     Document Type: Article

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