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Published on: July 21, 2018
Evidence of a surface plasmon-mediated mechanism in the generation of the SERS background
Cosmin Farcau1, Simion Astilean
1Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, 1 M. Kogalniceanu 400084, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. cosmin.farcau@phys.ubbcluj.ro
Abstract:
Herein, we correlate the SERS images recorded by Scanning Confocal Raman Microscopy with the plasmonic response of a Ag nanostructured film of controlled morphology to put forward direct evidence for the involvement of a plasmonic mechanism in the generation of the SERS background.

