Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from rhodamine 6G on gold-coated self-organized silicon nanopyramidal array

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 3401-3407

  Li, Rui ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Pan, Shi ^a   Liu, Kun ^a   Hu, Shanshan ^a   Pan, Lujun ^a   Guo, Yingnan ^a   Wu, Shifa ^a   Li, Xufeng ^b   Liu, Jun ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; METALLIC FILMS; MULTILAYERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SURFACE SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FABRICATION PROCESS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING PROCESS; PERFECT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRUM;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84898599141     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2013.352     Document Type: Article

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