Optical Properties of Noncontinuous Gold Shell Engineered on Silica Mesosphere

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-127

  Yang, Longkun ^a,b   Li, Zhipeng ^a   Wang, Peijie ^a   Zhang, Lisheng ^a   Fang, Yan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hot spots; Multi gaps; Noncontinuous shell; Surface plasmon resonance (SPR); Surface enhanced raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895060307     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9604-0     Document Type: Article

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