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Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light.

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Hill, RT; Mock, JJ; Urzhumov, Y; Sebba, DS; Oldenburg, SJ; Chen, S-Y; Lazarides, AA; Chilkoti, A; Smith, DR
Published in: Nano letters
October 2010

The strongly enhanced and localized optical fields that occur within the gaps between metallic nanostructures can be leveraged for a wide range of functionality in nanophotonic and optical metamaterial applications. Here, we introduce a means of precise control over these nanoscale gaps through the application of a molecular spacer layer that is self-assembled onto a gold film, upon which gold nanoparticles (NPs) are deposited electrostatically. Simulations using a three-dimensional finite element model and measurements from single NPs confirm that the gaps formed by this process, between the NP and the gold film, are highly reproducible transducers of surface-enhanced resonant Raman scattering. With a spacer layer of roughly 1.6 nm, all NPs exhibit a strong Raman signal that decays rapidly as the spacer layer is increased.

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Nano letters

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EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

10

Issue

10

Start / End Page

4150 / 4154

Related Subject Headings

  • Static Electricity
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanostructures
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Nanoparticles
  • Light
  • Gold
 

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Hill, R. T., Mock, J. J., Urzhumov, Y., Sebba, D. S., Oldenburg, S. J., Chen, S.-Y., … Smith, D. R. (2010). Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light. Nano Letters, 10(10), 4150–4154. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl102443p
Hill, Ryan T., Jack J. Mock, Yaroslav Urzhumov, David S. Sebba, Steven J. Oldenburg, Shiuan-Yeh Chen, Anne A. Lazarides, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and David R. Smith. “Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light.Nano Letters 10, no. 10 (October 2010): 4150–54. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl102443p.
Hill RT, Mock JJ, Urzhumov Y, Sebba DS, Oldenburg SJ, Chen S-Y, et al. Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light. Nano letters. 2010 Oct;10(10):4150–4.
Hill, Ryan T., et al. “Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light.Nano Letters, vol. 10, no. 10, Oct. 2010, pp. 4150–54. Epmc, doi:10.1021/nl102443p.
Hill RT, Mock JJ, Urzhumov Y, Sebba DS, Oldenburg SJ, Chen S-Y, Lazarides AA, Chilkoti A, Smith DR. Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light. Nano letters. 2010 Oct;10(10):4150–4154.
Journal cover image

Published In

Nano letters

DOI

EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

10

Issue

10

Start / End Page

4150 / 4154

Related Subject Headings

  • Static Electricity
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanostructures
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Nanoparticles
  • Light
  • Gold