Large area metal nanowire arrays with tunable sub-20 nm nanogaps

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5223-5234

  Le Thi Ngoc, Loan ^a   Jin, Mingliang ^a,b   Wiedemair, Justyna ^a   Van Den Berg, Albert ^a   Carlen, Edwin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

metal nanograting; metal nanowire arrays; nanoelectrodes; plasmonic substrates; top down nanofabrication

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METAL NANOWIRE; NANO-ELECTRODES; NANOGRATING; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); TOPDOWN;

DEPOSITION; DIMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

SUBSTRATES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTRODES; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84879637105     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4009559     Document Type: Article

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