Remote-excitation surface-enhanced Raman scattering with counter-propagating plasmons: Silver nanowire-nanoparticle system

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dasgupta, Arindam ^a   Singh, Danveer ^a   Tandon, Shreyash ^a   Tripathi, Ravi P N ^a   Pavan Kumar, G V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

hot spot; nanowire; plasmonics; remote excitation; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

CONTROL OPTICAL FIELDS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; HOT SPOT; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMON-POLARITONS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 84892142104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.8.083899     Document Type: Article

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