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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 4, 548(2020)

SERS study on the synergistic effects of electric field enhancement and charge transfer in an Ag2S quantum dots/plasmonic bowtie nanoantenna composite system

Bin Wang1,2, Chen Zhao1,2, Huanyu Lu2,3, Tingting Zou1,2, Subhash C. Singh1,4,5、*, Zhi Yu1,6、*, Chaonan Yao1,2, Xin Zheng1,2, Jun Xing1,2, Yuting Zou1,2, Cunzhu Tong3, Weili Yu1, Bo Zhao1, and Chunlei Guo1,4,7、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1The Guo China-US Photonics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 4The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
  • 5e-mail: ssingh49@ur.rochester.edu
  • 6e-mail: zhiyu@ciomp.ac.cn
  • 7e-mail: guo@optics.rochester.edu
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    Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

    Received: Nov. 20, 2019

    Accepted: Jan. 15, 2020

    Published Online: Mar. 30, 2020

    The Author Email: Subhash C. Singh (ssingh49@ur.rochester.edu), Zhi Yu (zhiyu@ciomp.ac.cn), Chunlei Guo (guo@optics.rochester.edu)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.383612

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