Bowtie Nanoantenna with Single-Digit Nanometer Gap for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

Plasmonics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 831-837

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b   Irannejad, Mehrdad ^a   Cui, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bowtie; EBL; Localized surface plasmon; SERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937977385     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-014-9870-5     Document Type: Article

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