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Rev Sci Instrum
; 88(2): 023107, 2017 Feb.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28249498
RESUMO
A needle probe has been developed to obtain surface enhanced Raman scattering data from within a solid specimen located remotely from the spectrometer. It produces the high signal strength of a single mode optical fiber but with a negligible fiber induced background. The observed Raman signal strength is comparable to that obtained with a microscope objective of the same numerical aperture in a conventional spectrometer arrangement and many times larger than that of probes using two fibers.