Peng, B.Li, Z.Mutlugun, E.Martinez, P. L. H.Li, D.Zhang, Q.Gao, Y.Demir, Hilmi VolkanXiong, Q.2015-07-282015-07-2820142040-3364http://hdl.handle.net/11693/12823CTAB-coated Au nanorods were directly self-assembled into a vertically aligned monolayer with highly uniform hot spots through a simple but robust approach. By coupling with CdSe/ZnS quantum dots, a maximum enhancement of 10.4 is achieved due to: increased excitation transition rate, radiative rate, and coupling efficiency of emission to the far field.EnglishRaman-scatteringNanoscale forcesFano resonanceNanoparticlesMetamaterialsArraysNanostructuresLuminescencePhotoluminescenceSuperlatticesArticle10.1039/C3NR06341K