Probing the location of hot spots by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: Toward uniform substrates

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 528-536

  Wang, Xiang ^a   Li, Maohua ^a   Meng, Lingyan ^a   Lin, Kaiqiang ^a   Feng, Jiamin ^a   Huang, Tengxiang ^a   Yang, Zhilin ^a   Ren, Bin ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

gold film; hot spot; nanoparticle; near field distribution; surface plasmon resonance; uniform SERS substrate

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GOLD FILM; HOT SPOT; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; NEAR-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; PROBES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84893492271     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405073h     Document Type: Article

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