Extremely large enhancement factors in surface-enhanced Raman scattering for molecules on colloidal gold clusters

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1493-1497

  Kneipp, Katrin ^a,b   Kneipp, Harald ^a,b   Manoharan, Ramasamy ^a   Hanlon, Eugene B ^a   Itzkan, Irving ^a   Dasari, Ramachandra R ^a   Feld, Michael S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloidal gold; Fractal clusters; Single molecule detection; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001281668     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/0003702981943059     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. A. Otto, in Light Scattering in Solids, M. Cardona and G. Guentherodt, Eds. (Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1984), p. 289.
2. M. Moskovits, Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, 783 (1985).
3. A. Otto, I. Mrozek, H. Grabhorn, and W. Akemann, J. Phys. Chem. Condens. Matter 4, 1143 (1992).
4. D. S. Wang and M. Kerker, Phys. Rev. B25, 1777 (1981).
5. V. M. Shalaev, Phys. Rep. 272, 61 (1996).
6. K. Kneipp, Y. Wang, H. Kneipp, I. Itzkan, R. R. Dasari, and M.S. Feld. Phys. Rev. Lett. 7, 2444 (1996).
7. K. Kneipp, Y. Wang, H. Kneipp, L. T. Perelman, I. Itzkan, R. R. Dasari, and M.S. Feld, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1667 (1997).
8. K. Kneipp, H. Kneipp, G. Deinum, I. Itzkan, R. R. Dasari, and M.S. Feld, Appl. Spectrosc. 52, 175 (1998).
9. K. Kneipp, H. Kneipp, V. B. Kartha, R. Manoharan, G. Deinum, I. Itzkan, R. R. Dasari, and M.S. Feld, Phys. Rev. E57, R6281 (1998).
10. S. Nie and S. R. Emory. Science 275, 1102 (1997).
11. D. A. Weitz and M. Oliveria, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1433 (1984).
12. K. Güldner, R. Liedtke, K. Kneipp, and H. J. Eichler, Europhysics Conference Abstracts, 29th EGAS, European Physical Society, Berlin, (1997), p. 128.
13. V. M. Shalaev and M. I. Stockman, Sov. Phys. JETP 65, 287 (1987).
14. M. I. Stockmann, V. M. Shalev, M. Moskovits, R. Botet, and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B46, 2821 (1992).
15. V. P. Safonov, V. M. Shalaev, V. A. Markel, Yu. E. Danilova, N. L. Lepesgkin, W. Kim, S. G. Rautian, and R. L. Armstrong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1102 (1998).
16. J. A. Creighton, C. G. Blatchford, and M. G. Albrecht, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2 75, 790 (1979).
17. K. Kneipp, R. R. Dasari, and Y. Wang, Appl. Spectrosc. 48, 951 (1994).
18. K. Kneipp, H. Kneipp, R. ManoharanI, I. Itzkan, R. R. Dasari, and M. S. Feld, Bioimaging 6, 104 (1998).
19. H. Kneipp, K. Kneipp, and F Seifert, Chem. Phys. Lett. 212, 374 (1993).
20. D. W. Lunch and W. R. Hunter, in Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids, E. D. Palik, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 1985), p. 275.
21. W. Kaiser, J. P. Maier, and A. Selmeier "Two-Pulse Spectroscopy with Picosecond Laser Pulses" in Laser Spectroscopy IV, H. Walther and E. Rothe, Eds. (Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1979).