Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (PERS), including surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy, shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and tip-enhanced …

Raman and infrared (IR) spectroscopy are powerful analytical techniques, but have
intrinsically low detection sensitivity. There have been three major steps (i) to advance the …

The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

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

Plasmonic materials can generate strong electromagnetic fields to boost the Raman
scattering of surrounding molecules, known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

Since 2000, there has been an explosion of activity in the field of plasmon-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (PERS), including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), tip …

Dielectrics represent a new frontier for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. They can serve
as either a complement or an alternative to conventional, metal-based SERS, offering key …

Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

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