Demonstrating the capability of the high-performance plasmonic gallium-graphene couple

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3031-3041

  Losurdo, Maria ^a,b   Yi, Congwen ^a   Suvorova, Alexandra ^c   Rubanov, Sergey ^d   Kim, Tong Ho ^a   Giangregorio, Maria M ^b   Jiao, Wenyuan ^a   Bergmair, Iris ^e   Bruno, Giovanni ^b   Brown, April S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e PROFACTOR GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

electron transfer; Ga nanoparticles; graphene; plasmon resonance; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

DYES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GALLIUM; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON TRANSFER; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PLATFORMS; PLASMON RESONANCES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); WEAK CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84896988088     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500472r     Document Type: Article

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