Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)
have opened a variety of exciting research fields. However, although a vast number of …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and related spectroscopies are powered
primarily by the concentration of the electromagnetic (EM) fields associated with light in or …

Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

In the last two decades, plasmonic resonance in metallic nanoparticles (Au, Ag NPs) has
created intensive research efforts in nanoscale optics, photonics and sensors. When light …

The vivid optical properties of noble metal nanoparticles have been an object of fascination
since ancient times. The ruby red of stained glass windows arises from gold nanoparticles …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful spectroscopy technique that can
provide non-destructive and ultra-sensitive characterization down to single molecular level …

Metallic nanostructures with nanometer gaps support hybrid plasmonic modes with an
extremely small mode volume and strong local field intensity, which constitutes an attractive …

The response of gold nanoparticle dimers is studied theoretically near and beyond the limit
where the particles are touching. As the particles approach each other, a dominant dipole …

Metallic nanostructures attract much interest as an efficient media for surface‐enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). Significant progress has been made on the synthesis of metal …