Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from silver-coated opals

Weiqiang Mu; Dae Kue Hwang; Robert P.H. Chang; Maxim Sukharev; Daniel B. Tice; John B. Ketterson

doi:10.1063/1.3570827

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from silver-coated opals

Weiqiang Mu^*, Dae Kue Hwang, Robert P.H. Chang, Maxim Sukharev, Daniel B. Tice, John B. Ketterson

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We describe surface-enhanced Raman scattering measurements from a benzenethiol monolayer adsorbed on a silver-coated film that is, in turn, deposited on an artificial opal, where the latter is a close-packed three-dimensional dielectric lattice formed from polystyrene spheres. Data for a range of sphere sizes, silver film thicknesses, and laser excitation wavelengths are obtained. Enhancement factors can be in the range of 10 ⁷. To partially explain these large enhancements, we have performed model finite-difference time domain simulations of the position-dependent electric fields generated at the opal surfaces for several experimentally studied laser wavelengths and sphere diameters.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	124312
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	134
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3570827
State	Published - Mar 28 2011

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