Experimental and simulative study on surface enhanced Raman scattering of rhodamine 6G adsorbed on big bulk-nanocrystalline metal substrates

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1718-1729

  Yi, Zao ^a,b   Yi, Yong ^b   Luo, Jiangshan ^c   Ye, Xin ^b,c   Wu, Pinghui ^d   Ji, Xiaochun ^b,c   Jiang, Xiaodong ^c   Yi, Yougen ^a   Tang, Yongjian ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANALYTIC EQUIPMENT; COMPACTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

AL-NANOPARTICLES; DIFFERENT PRESSURES; ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FDTD CALCULATIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE METAL; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 84916620268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06141a     Document Type: Article

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