Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a powerful tool in chemical,
material and life sciences, owing to its intrinsic features (ie, fingerprint recognition …

Since 2000, there has been an explosion of activity in the field of plasmon-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (PERS), including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), tip …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and related spectroscopies are powered
primarily by the concentration of the electromagnetic (EM) fields associated with light in or …

While surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has experienced substantial
advancements since its discovery in the 1970s, it is an opportunity to celebrate …

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy
technique that allows for highly sensitive structural detection of low concentration analytes …

Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

The development of diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticles for biomedical applications is
of broad current interest in science, engineering, and medicine. The fundamental basis is …

Single-molecule (SM) surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and tip-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (TERS) have emerged as analytical techniques for characterizing …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combines molecular fingerprint specificity
with potential single-molecule sensitivity. Therefore, the SERS technique is an attractive tool …

In this perspective we discuss the roles of hot spots in surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (SERS). After giving background and defining the hot spot, we evaluate a …