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as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) [28][29][30][31] and, more recently, in studies of fluorescence lifetime [32][33] and the enhancement of the Purcell rate [34] (achieved mainly by confinement of light in small mode volumes rather than by very large Q-values of the resonances).
The strong
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Fabrication of arrays of metal film coated hemispheres. Main steps: (a) Preparation of 2D colloidal...
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detection (colorimetric and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)). For different reasons gold particles are particularly attractive in this field. For instance, they are ideal electrodes for molecular electronics [22]. Gold clusters below 5 nm in size deposited onto thin metal oxides also exhibit
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Evolution of the logarithm of the dissipated power normalized by the radius (R) as a function of (a...