Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy – With raman type light scattering
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-06
2010-02-02
Lauchman, L. G (Department: 2877)
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
With raman type light scattering
C436S164000, C436S171000, C435S288700, C435S287100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07656525
ABSTRACT:
Fiber optic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems (also referred to as “SERS system”), portable SERS systems, SERS probes, and methods of using the SERS systems and SERS probes to detect an analyte, are disclosed.
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Liu Yongjun
Zhao Yiping
Lauchman L. G
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University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.
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