Nanoholes arrays as effective SERS substrates with multiple wavelength SERS response and large electromagnetic SERS enhancement factors

Author(s):  
Nitin Gupta ◽  
Rajib R. Ghosh ◽  
Anuj Dhawan
Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Wang ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yongqiang Yang ◽  
Jing Zhang

Graphene and its derivatives have been demonstrated to be good surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. However, the literature offers some contrasting views on the SERS effect of graphene-based materials. Thus, understanding the mechanism of the SERS enhancement of graphene is essential for exploring its application as a SERS substrate. In this study, graphene oxide (GO) and chemically reduced graphene oxide (CRGO) films with different morphologies and structures were prepared and applied as SERS substrates to detect Raman dye molecules. The observed enhancement factors can be as large as 10~103. The mechanism of SERS enhancement is discussed. It is shown that the SERS effect was independent of the adsorption of dye molecules and the surface morphologies of graphene-based films. Raman shifts are observed and are almost the same on different graphene-based films, indicating the existence of charge transfer between dye molecules and substrates. The Raman enhancement factors and sensitivities of dye molecules on different films are consistently within the IG/ID ratios of graphene-based substrates, indicating that the dramatically enhanced Raman spectra on graphene-based films are strongly dependent on the average size of sp2 carbon domain.


The Analyst ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
pp. 3916-3924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler J. Dill ◽  
Matthew J. Rozin ◽  
Eric R. Brown ◽  
Stephen Palani ◽  
Andrea R. Tao

Colloidal polydispersity has a significant impact on the high Raman enhancement factors (EFs) for nanoparticle-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates.


The Analyst ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 670-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arumugam Sivanesan ◽  
Witold Adamkiewicz ◽  
Govindasamy Kalaivani ◽  
Agnieszka Kamińska ◽  
Jacek Waluk ◽  
...  

Correction for ‘Towards improved precision in the quantification of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factors: a renewed approach’ by Arumugam Sivanesan et al., Analyst, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c4an01778a.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (18) ◽  
pp. 3970-3975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Macias ◽  
María Alba ◽  
Lluís F. Marsal ◽  
Agustín Mihi

Rough 2D plasmonic crystals pose as inexpensive and easily processed SERS substrates exhibiting enhancement factors up to 1.6 × 1010.


The Analyst ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arumugam Sivanesan ◽  
Witold Adamkiewicz ◽  
Govindasamy Kalaivani ◽  
Agnieszka Kamińska ◽  
Jacek Waluk ◽  
...  

This paper demonstrates a renewed procedure for the quantification of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factors with improved precision.


2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1127-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Le Ru ◽  
M. Meyer ◽  
E. Blackie ◽  
P. G. Etchegoin

2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (7) ◽  
pp. 3483-3488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathima S. Ameer ◽  
Wenfang Hu ◽  
Siyam M. Ansar ◽  
Kumudu Siriwardana ◽  
Willard E. Collier ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (22) ◽  
pp. 9520-9525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Hong Ciou ◽  
Yi-Wei Cao ◽  
Huai-Cing Huang ◽  
De-Yan Su ◽  
Cheng-Liang Huang

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Song ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Sweejiang Yoo ◽  
Yuan Wu ◽  
Weihua Liu ◽  
...  

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique and has been most intensively studied. In this work, electroless deposition is proposed for Ag nanoparticles (NPs) decorated on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth graphene sheets (GS) to create hybrid SERS substrate. From three aspects of size distribution, morphology, and coverage, Ag NPs controllable decoration on GS and SERS enhancement factors of the hybrid SERS substrate is investigated. 200–300 times enhanced SERS intensities are detected from the Ag NPs on GS hybrid as compared to pure GS. Controllable decoration is crucial for improving SERS enhancement factorsβEF, becauseβEFfrom quasi cubic Ag NPs on GS is 6.53 times stronger than that from spheric one; 1.6 timesβEFis detected while the Ag NPs size distribution is reduced to half, and when the coverage is doubled,βEFis nearly doubled. This controllable Ag NPs/GS hybrid is capable of serving as a high performance SERS substrate for efficient chemical and biological sensing applications.


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