Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Plasmonic photoluminescence for recovering native chemical information from surface-enhanced Raman scattering

  • Kai-Qiang Lin,
  • Jun Yi,
  • Jin-Hui Zhong,
  • Shu Hu,
  • Bi-Ju Liu,
  • Jun-Yang Liu,
  • Cheng Zong,
  • Zhi-Chao Lei,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Javier Aizpurua,
  • Rubén Esteban,
  • Bin Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14891
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Localized surface plasmon resonances induce strong modifications of surface-enhanced Raman spectra. Here the authors propose a robust method to retrieve the fingerprint of intrinsic chemical information by using the photoluminescence of the metallic structures to correct the spectra.