Disordered array of Au covered Silicon nanowires for SERS biosensing combined with electrochemical detection

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Convertino, Annalisa ^a   Mussi, Valentina ^a   Maiolo, Luca ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84964692552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25099     Document Type: Article

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