Nanostructure-based plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for surface analysis of materials

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Ding, Song Yuan ^a   Yi, Jun ^a   Li, Jian Feng ^a,b   Ren, Bin ^a,b   Wu, De Yin ^a   Panneerselvam, Rajapandiyan ^a   Tian, Zhong Qun ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.21     Document Type: Review

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