Coherently Embedded Ag Nanostructures in Si: 3D Imaging and their application to SERS

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Juluri, R R ^a   Rath, A ^a,d   Ghosh, A ^a   Bhukta, A ^a   Sathyavathi, R ^b   Rao, D Narayana ^b   Müller, Knut ^c   Schowalter, Marco ^c   Frank, Kristian ^c   Grieb, Tim ^c   Krause, Florian ^c   Rosenauer, A ^c   Satyam, P V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

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EID: 84898437997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04633     Document Type: Article

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