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 …

Materials and their interfaces are the core for the development of a large variety of fields,
including catalysis, energy storage and conversion. In this case, tip-enhanced Raman …

Microcavities and nanoresonators have the ability to strongly enhance many light–matter-
interaction processes used in various applications in nano-optics. This enhancement is due …

Efficient upconversion electroluminescence is highly desirable for a broad range of
optoelectronic applications, yet to date, it has been reported only for ensemble systems …

The investigation of molecular adsorption structures on nonmetallic surfaces is important for
understanding the functionalities of nanodevices and biomolecules. In contrast to extensive …

Two-dimensional heterostructures have recently gained broad interest due to potential
applications in optoelectronic devices. Their reduced dimensionality leads to novel physical …

An analytic model is used to calculate the Raman and fluorescence enhancement of a
molecule in between two closely spaced gold nanospheres. Instead of using the …

The quality of the scanning tip is crucial for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS)
experiments towards large signal enhancement and high spatial resolution. In this work, we …

Recent developments in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) have demonstrated its
capabilities in lateral resolution down to Ångström scale and chemical identification of …

We report our tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) study of a pentacene derivative,
where the molecule is adsorbed on the Ag tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) …