Direct measurement of the Raman enhancement factor of rhodamine 6G on graphene under resonant excitation

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1271-1279

  Deng, Shibin ^a   Xu, Weigao ^a   Wang, Jinying ^a   Ling, Xi ^b   Wu, Juanxia ^a   Xie, Liming ^c   Kong, Jing ^b   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^b,d   Zhang, Jin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b USA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

graphene; optical contrast spectroscopy; polarization difference resonance Raman spectroscopy; Raman enhancement; rhodamine 6G

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926456504     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0490-3     Document Type: Article

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