title: Polarization dependence of surface-enhanced Raman scattering in gold nanoparticle-nanowire systems.
abstract: We study the polarization dependence of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in coupled gold nanoparticle-nanowire systems. The coupling between the continuous nanowire plasmons and the localized nanoparticle plasmons results in significant field enhancements and SERS enhancements comparable to those found in nanoparticle dimer junctions. The SERS intensity is maximal when the incident light is polarized across the particle and the wire, and the enhancement is remarkably insensitive to the detailed geometrical structures of the nanoparticles.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Yingzhou
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wenzhong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nordlander
authors.forename: Hongxing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu