A nanotweezer system for evanescent wave excited surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of single nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 6793-6802

  Kong, Lingbo ^a   Lee, Changwon ^a   Earhart, Christopher M ^b   Cordovez, Bernardo ^b   Chan, James W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Optofluidics Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT SCATTERING; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER; SURFACE SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REPORTER MOLECULES; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE; STOKES AND ANTI-STOKES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPIES;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

EID: 84964569242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.006793     Document Type: Article

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