Out-diffused silver island films for surface-enhanced Raman scattering protected with TiO2 films using atomic layer deposition

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Chervinskii, Semen ^a,b   Matikainen, Antti ^a   Dergachev, Alexey ^c   Lipovskii, Andrey A ^b,d   Honkanen, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d ST PETERSBURG ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dielectric spacer; Film; Nanoisland; Nanoparticle; Self assembly; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; FILMS; ION EXCHANGE; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE SCATTERING; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DIELECTRIC SPACERS; NANO-ISLANDS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; REDUCING ATMOSPHERE; SILVER ISLAND FILMS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84922787430     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-398     Document Type: Article

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