Large-area, freestanding, single-layer graphene-gold: A hybrid plasmonic nanostructure

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6353-6362

  Iyer, Ganjigunte R Swathi ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wells, Garth ^a   Guruvenket, Srinivasan ^b   Payne, Scott ^b   Bradley, Michael ^c   Borondics, Ferenc ^a  

^a CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

freestanding graphene; NEXAFS; plasmonics; SERS; STXM

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; SUBSTRATES;

HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; NEXAFS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SERS; STXM; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; GOLD; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PROCEDURES; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON; GOLD; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903449071     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501864h     Document Type: Article

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