Plasmon focusing in short gold sphere nanochains for surface-enhanced raman scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 8809-8816

  Delange, Pascal ^a,b   Ho, Ya Lun ^a   Delaunay, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; GOLD; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICA; SURFACE SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; INCIDENT ENERGY; INFINITE CHAINS; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; SINGLE MOLECULE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

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EID: 84942369566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.008809     Document Type: Article

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