Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SE
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Shiming Geng; J. Friedrich; J. GΓ€hde; Liping Guo
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A thin film (Ο½10 nm) of fine metal clusters (silver or gold) with an island form was deposited on a CaF 2 salt plate by slow vacuum thermal evaporation. Molecular layers of stearic acid, p-nitrobenzoic acid, and m-nitrobenzoic acid (p-and m-NBA) were prepared on the thin metal film. The system was t