Billion-fold increase in tip-enhanced Raman signal

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3421-3426

  Wickramasinghe, H Kumar ^a   Chaigneau, Marc ^b   Yasukuni, Ryohei ^b   Picardi, Gennaro ^b   Ossikovski, Razvigor ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

self assembled monolayer; stimulated Raman; surface chemical imaging; tip enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; MOLECULES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

LASER FREQUENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; STIMULATED RAMAN; SURFACE CHEMICALS; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS; THIOL SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84899438099     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406263m     Document Type: Article

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