Sensing using plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 32, 2015, Pages

  Langer, Judith ^a   Novikov, Sergey M ^a   Liz Marzán, Luis M ^a,b  

^a CIC BIOMAGUNE   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

dark field optical microspectroscopy; localized surface plasmon resonance; nanoparticles; sensing; SERS; surface enhanced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; OPTICAL MICROSPECTROSCOPY; SENSING; SERS; SURFACE ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84938152232     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/32/322001     Document Type: Review

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