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. 2019 Jul 24;9:10771. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47179-4

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Panel (A,B) illustrates hotspots on the surface of sprouts-free and sprouted potato shaped nanoparticles, respectively. The zoomed portion in Panel (ii) shows single molecule adsorbed at the tip of a sproute. E₀ is the electric fied of incident light. E_hs1(r) is the electric field at the hot spot of sproutes-free potato shaped nanoparticle and this electric field remains same even in the presence of sproutes (except at the tips of sproutes). E_hs2(r) is the electric field at the hot spot of one sprout.