Driven by applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging and material
characterisation, Raman spectroscopies are attracting growing interest from a variety of …

Infrared and optical spectroscopy represents one of the most informative methods in
advanced materials research. As an important branch of modern optical techniques that has …

This review discusses a relatively new technique for optical nanoimaging at visible
wavelength, known as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). This technique relies on …

An analytical technique operating at the nanoscale must be flexible regarding variable
experimental conditions while ideally also being highly specific, extremely sensitive, and …

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) is one of the few methods to access the molecular
composition and structure of surfaces with extreme lateral and depth resolution, down to the …

Super-resolution optical microscopy, which gives access to finer details of objects, is highly
desired for fields of nanomaterial, nanobiology, nanophotonics, etc. Many efforts, including …

The proposed work aims to develop a sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
(SERS) nano-biosensor. The inverted nano pyramid array on silicon substrate fabricated …

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 …

Fiber components form the standard not only in modern telecommunication but also for
future quantum information technology. For high-performance single-photon detection …

Surface plasmons in metals promise many fascinating properties and applications in optics,
sensing, photonics and nonlinear fields. Plasmonic nanostructures with extremely small …