Gold dimer nanoantenna with slanted gap for tunable LSPR and improved SERS

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3209-3219

  Kessentini, Sameh ^a   Barchiesi, Dominique ^b   D'Andrea, Cristiano ^c   Toma, Andrea ^d   Guillot, Nicolas ^e   Di Fabrizio, Enzo ^f,g   Fazio, Barbara ^c   Maragó, Onofrio M ^c   Gucciardi, Pietro G ^c   Lamy De La Chapelle, Marc ^e  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^f KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

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EID: 84894046948     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409844y     Document Type: Article

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