Self-assembly of large-scale gold nanoparticle arrays and their application in SERS

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Sheng Qing ^a,b   Zhang, Tong ^a,b   Guo, Xin Li ^a   Zhang, Xiao Yang ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Gold nanoparticle; Localized surface plasmon resonance; Plasmonics; Self assembly; SERS

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE SCATTERING;

DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; EXTINCTION SPECTRA; GOLD-NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; SERS; SERS ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84925630074     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-114     Document Type: Article

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