Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy using nanometer-sized gaps

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4908-4914

  Huck, Christian ^a   Neubrech, Frank ^a,b   Vogt, Jochen ^a   Toma, Andrea ^d   Gerbert, David ^a   Katzmann, Julia ^c   Härtling, Thomas ^c   Pucci, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

infrared; nanogaps; optical nanoantenna; plasmonic; SEIRA; surface enhanced infrared absorption

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOGAPS; OPTICAL NANO ANTENNAS; PLASMONIC; SEIRA; SURFACE-ENHANCED INFRARED ABSORPTIONS;

DIMERS;

EID: 84901659511     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500903v     Document Type: Article

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