Surface plasmon-enhanced gas sensing in single gold-peapodded silica nanowires

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Sheng Bo ^a   Huang, Yi Fan ^b,c   Chattopadhyay, Surojit ^c   Chang, Shoou Jinn ^a   Chen, Ruei San ^d   Chong, Cheong Wei ^e   Hu, Ming Shien ^b   Chen, Li Chyong ^e   Chen, Kuei Hsien ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gas sensor; Nanowire; Silica; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN DESORPTION; RESONANCE ENHANCED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SENSING PROPERTY; SILICA NANO WIRES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; ENERGY GAP; GAS DETECTORS; GOLD; NANOWIRES; SILICA;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84878961742     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.17     Document Type: Article

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