Studying surface chemistry beyond the diffraction limit: 10 years of TERS

KF Domke, B Pettinger - ChemPhysChem, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The use of an illuminated scanning probe tip to greatly enhance Raman scattering from the
sample underneath the tip is one of the most intriguing developments in optical …

Plasmonic nanopillar arrays for large-area, high-enhancement surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensors

JD Caldwell, O Glembocki, FJ Bezares, ND Bassim… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Efforts to create reproducible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based chemical
and biological sensors has been hindered by difficulties in fabricating large-area SERS …

Tuning and maximizing the single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering from DNA-tethered nanodumbbells

JH Lee, JM Nam, KS Jeon, DK Lim, H Kim, S Kwon… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We extensively study the relationships between single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman
scattering (SMSERS) intensity, enhancement factor (EF) distribution over many particles …

Separation of electromagnetic and chemical contributions to surface-enhanced Raman spectra on nanoengineered plasmonic substrates

SK Saikin, Y Chu, D Rappoport… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Raman signals from molecules adsorbed on a noble metal surface are enhanced by many
orders of magnitude due to the plasmon resonances of the substrate. Additionally, the …

Gold on graphene as a substrate for surface enhanced Raman scattering study

Y Wang, Z Ni, H Hu, Y Hao, CP Wong, T Yu… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we report our study on gold (Au) films with different thicknesses deposited on
single layer graphene (SLG) as surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates for …

Laser fabricated ripple substrates for surface‐enhanced Raman scattering

R Buividas, PR Stoddart, S Juodkazis - Annalen der Physik, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond laser fabricated surface nanograting structures, referred to as ripples, are
proposed as efficient substrates for surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Ripple …

Investigation of the importance of the electronic enhancement mechanism for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

F Mohaghegh, AM Tehrani… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Different mechanisms contribute to the increase of the inelastically scattered signal
observed in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The so-called electronic …

Large-area plasmonic hot-spot arrays: sub-2 nm interparticle separations with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of Ag on periodic arrays of Si nanopillars

JD Caldwell, OJ Glembocki, FJ Bezares… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Initial reports of plasmonic 'hot-spots' enabled the detection of single molecules via surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from random distributions of plasmonic nanoparticles …

Electromagnetic interactions of dye molecules surrounding a nanosphere

B Auguié, BL Darby, EC Le Ru - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Enhanced interaction between light and molecules adsorbed on metallic nanoparticles is a
cornerstone of plasmonics and surface-enhanced spectroscopies. Recent experimental …

Large surface-enhanced Raman scattering from self-assembled gold nanosphere monolayers

J Fontana, J Livenere, FJ Bezares, JD Caldwell… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate an average surface-enhanced Raman scattering enhancement on the
order of 10 8 from benzenethiol molecules using self-assembled, macroscopic, and tunable …