Wafer-scale leaning silver nanopillars for molecular detection at ultra-low concentrations

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2053-2062

  Wu, Kaiyu ^a   Rindzevicius, Tomas ^a   Stenbæk Schmidt, Michael ^a   Mogensen, Klaus Bo ^a   Hakonen, Aron ^b   Boisen, Anja ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ETHYLENE; INFRARED DEVICES; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ANALYTE CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; FABRICATION PROCESS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; MASK-LESS LITHOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED REGION; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); ULTRA LOW CONCENTRATION;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84921966403     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp510073y     Document Type: Article

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