SERS study on the synergistic effects of electric field enhancement and charge transfer in an Ag2S quantum dots/plasmonic bowtie nanoantenna composite system

Bin Wang; Chen Zhao; Huanyu Lu; Tingting Zou; Subhash C. Singh; Zhi Yu; Chaonan Yao; Xin Zheng; Jun Xing; Yuting Zou; Cunzhu Tong; Weili Yu; Bo Zhao; Chunlei Guo

doi:10.1364/PRJ.383612

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