Plasmonic coupling effect in silver spongelike networks nanoantenna for large increases of surface enhanced raman scattering

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 49, 2013, Pages 26295-26304

  Yi, Zao ^a,b   Yi, Yougen ^a   Luo, Jiangshan ^b   Li, Xibo ^b   Yi, Yong ^c   Xu, Xibin ^a,b   Wu, Pinghui ^c   Jiang, Xiaodong ^b   Wu, Weidong ^b   Tang, Yongjian ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOANTENNAS; PLASMON COUPLING; PLASMONIC COUPLING; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

CHAINS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOTIPS; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SILVER;

EID: 84890514115     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp408541s     Document Type: Article

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