Raman enhancement via polariton states produced by strong coupling between a localized surface plasmon and dye excitons at metal nanogaps

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-19

  Nagasawa, Fumika ^a   Takase, Mai ^a   Murakoshi, Kei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dye exciton; localized surface plasmon resonance; polarized Raman measurement; strong coupling; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

ANTICROSSING BEHAVIOR; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ORGANIC DYE MOLECULES; POLARIZED RAMAN; STRONG COUPLING; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

EXCITONS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84891767785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz402243a     Document Type: Article

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