Rationally designed multifunctional plasmonic nanostructures for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: A review

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Xie, Wei ^a   Schlücker, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

plasmonic nanoparticles; SERS; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910650356     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/11/116502     Document Type: Review

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