[1] V L Brudny, B S Mendoza, W L Mochan, Second-harmonic generation from spherical particles, Phys. Rev. B 62, 11152 (2000).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.62.11152

[2] L C Estrada, P F Aramendía, O E Martínez, 10000 times volume reduction for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using nano-antennas, Opt. Express 16, 20597 (2008).
doi:10.1364/OE.16.020597

[3] A F Scarpettini, N Pellegri, A V Bragas, Optical imaging with subnanometric vertical resolution using nanoparticle-based plasmonic probes, Opt. Commun. 282, 1032 (2009).
doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2008.11.048

[4] T Kalkbrenner, M Ramstein, J Mlynek, V Sandoghdar, A single gold particle as a probe for apertureless scanning near-field optical microscopy, J. Microsc. 202, 72 (2001).
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00817.x

[5] P Anger, P Bharadwaj, L Novotny, Enhancement and quenching of single-molecule fluorescence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113002 (2006).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.113002

[6] A J Haes, R P Van Duyne, A nanoscale optical biosensor: Sensitivity and selectivity of an approach based on the localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of triangular silver nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 10596 (2002).
doi:10.1021/ja020393x

[7] A G Skirtach, A Muñoz Javier, O Kreft, K Köhler, A P Alberola, H Möhwald, W J Parak, G B Sukhorukov, Laser-induced release of encapsulated materials inside living cells, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 4612 (2006).
doi:10.1002/anie.200504599

[8] P Etchegoin, R C Maher, L F Cohen, H Hartigan, R J C Brown, M J T Milton, J C Gallop, New limits in ultrasensitive trace detection by surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), Chem. Phys. Lett. 375, 84 (2003).
doi:10.1016/S0009-2614(03)00821-2

[9] P G Etchegoin, P D Lacharmoise, E C Le Ru, Influence of photostability on single-molecule surface enhanced Raman scattering enhancement factors, Anal. Chem. 81, 682 (2009).
doi:10.1021/ac802083z

[10] M Ishifuji, M Mitsuishi, T Miyashita, Enhanced optical second harmonic generation in hybrid polymer nanoassemblies based on coupled surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanoparticle array, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 011903 (2006).
doi:10.1063/1.2219086

[11] H A Clark, P J Campagnola, J P Wuskell, A Lewis, L M Loew, Second harmonic generation properties of fluorescent polymer-encapsulated gold nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 10234 (2000).
doi:10.1021/ja002223v

[12] S Baldelli, A S Eppler, E Anderson, Y-R Shen, G A Somorjai, Surface enhanced sum frequency generation of carbon monoxide adsorbed on platinum nanoparticle arrays, J. Chem. Phys 113, 5432 (2000).
doi:10.1063/1.1290024

[13] I Barsegova, A Lewis, A Khatchatouriants, A Manevitch, A Ignatov, N Axelrod, Controlled fabrication of silver or gold nanoparticle near-field optical atomic force probes: Enhancement of second-harmonic generation, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3461 (2002).
doi:10.1063/1.1507618

[14] M C Marchi, S A Bilmes, G M Bilmes, Photophysics of Rhodamine B interacting with silver spheroids, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 218, 112 (1999).
doi:10.1006/jcis.1999.6379

[15] A Frattini, N Pellegri, D Nicastro, O de Sanctis, Effect of amine groups in the synthesis of Ag nanoparticles using aminosilanes, Mater. Chem. Phys. 94, 148 (2005).
doi:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2005.04.023

[16] A I Ekimov, F Hache, M C Schanne-Klein, D Ricard, C Flytzanis, I A Kudryavtsev, T V Yazeva, A V Rodina, Al L Efros, Absorption and intensity-dependent photoluminescence measurements on CdSe quantum dots: Assignment of the first electronic transitions, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 100 (1993).
doi:10.1364/JOSAB.10.000100

[17] Z Yu, J Li, D B O'Connor, L-W Wang, P F Barbara, Large resonant Stokes shift in CdS nanocrystals, J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 5670 (2003).
doi:10.1021/jp027392b

[18] E C Le Ru, P G Etchegoin, Principles of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Elsevier Science Ltd, Amsterdam (2008).

[19] E C Le Ru, E Blackie, M Meyer, P G Etchegoin, Surface enhanced raman scattering enhancement factors: A comprehensive study, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 13794 (2007).
doi:10.1021/jp0687908

[20] A Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (chapter 5.1), Springer Science, New York (2007).

[21] A V Baranov, K Inoue, K Toba, A Yamanaka, V I Petrov, A V Fedorov, Resonant hyper-Raman and second-harmonic scattering in a CdS quantum-dot system, Phys. Rev. B 53, R1721 (1996).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.53.R1721