Plasmonics for surface enhanced raman scattering: Nanoantennas for single molecules

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Crozier, Kenneth B ^a   Zhu, Wenqi ^a   Wang, Dongxing ^a   Lin, Shiyun ^a,b   Best, Michael D ^c   Camden, Jon P ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical and biological sensors; nanofabrication; nanolithography; nanomaterials; nanophotonics; nanoscale devices; Raman scattering; surface plasmons (SPs)

Indexed keywords

AG NANOPARTICLE; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SENSORS; NANOSCALE DEVICE; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE PLASMONS;

MOLECULES; NANOLITHOGRAPHY; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER; SURFACE SCATTERING;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84887457562     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2282257     Document Type: Article

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