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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2010;49(1):164–168. doi: 10.1002/anie.200905245

Table 2.

Enhancement factors (EFs) for dimers of Ag nanospheres with the laser polarization parallel (EFdimer-para) and perpendicular (EFdimer-perp) to the dimer’s longitudinal axis, as well as those of the corresponding spheres (EFsphere).

dsphere (nm) EFdimer-para EFdimer-perp EFsphere
80.4 ± 4.2 1.7 × 108 1.5 × 107 1.0 × 107
63.0 ± 3.7 9.3 × 107 9.2 × 106 7.8 × 106
39.7 ± 3.4 3.9 × 107 4.6 × 106 1.2 × 106