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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 128254, 5 pages
The Regulation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensitivity of Silver Nanorods by Silicon Sections
1Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials (MOE), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Received 26 April 2013; Revised 6 July 2013; Accepted 10 July 2013
Academic Editor: Miguel A. Correa-Duarte
Copyright © 2013 Xian Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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