High-vacuum tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Frontiers of Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-24

  Zhang, Zheng Long ^a,c   Chen, Li ^a,b   Sheng, Shao Xiang ^a   Sun, Meng Tao ^a   Zheng, Hai Rong ^c   Chen, Ke Qiu ^b   Xu, Hong Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

high vacuum; surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS); tip enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890869479     PISSN: 20950462     EISSN: 20950470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-013-0364-2     Document Type: Review

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