Composite Sinusoidal Nanograting With Long-Range SERS Effect for Label-Free TNT Detection

Cheng XIAO; Zhibin CHEN; Mengze QIN; Dongxiao ZHANG; Lei FAN

doi:10.1007/s13320-018-0497-6

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