Non-plasmonic nanoantennas for surface enhanced spectroscopies with ultra-low heat conversion

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Caldarola, Martín ^a   Albella, Pablo ^b   Cortés, Emiliano ^b   Rahmani, Mohsen ^b   Roschuk, Tyler ^b   Grinblat, Gustavo ^a   Oulton, Rupert F ^b   Bragas, Andrea V ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

FLUORESCENCE; HEAT BALANCE; LIGHT EFFECT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE; HEATING; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOFABRICATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84938602794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8915     Document Type: Article

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