Individual Ag Nanowire Dimer for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 761-766

  Du, ChaoLing ^a   You, YuMeng ^b   Chen, Tao ^c   Zhu, Yan ^a   Hu, HaiLong ^b   Shi, DaNing ^a   Chen, HongYu ^c   Shen, ZeXiang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ag nanowires (AgNWs); Dimer; Electromagnetic (EM) coupling; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255138124     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9261-0     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Lal S, Link S, Halas NJ (2007) Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding. Nat Phot 1: 641-648.
2. Kang T, Hong S, Choi I, Sung J, Kim Y, Hahn J, Yi Y (2006) Reversible pH-driven conformational switching of tethered superoxide dismutase with gold nanoparticle enhanced surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 128: 12870-12878.
3. Kneipp J, Kneiff H, Witting B, Kneipp K (2007) One- and two-photon excited optical pH probing for cells using surface-enhanced Raman and hyper-Raman nanosensors. Nano Lett 7: 2819-2823.
4. Nie SM, Emory SR (1997) Probing single molecules and single nanoparticles by surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science 275: 1102-1106.
5. Shao MW, Lu L, Wang H, Wang S, Zhang ML, Ma DD, Lee ST (2008) An ultrasensitive method: surface-enhanced Raman scattering of Ag nanoparticles from beta-silver vanadate and copper. Chem Commun 39: 2310-2312.
6. Xu HX, Bjerneld EJ, Käll M, Börjesson L (1999) Spectroscopy of single hemoglobin molecules by surface enhanced Raman scattering. Phys Rev Lett 83: 4357-4360.
7. Du CL, Yang MX, You YM, Chen T, Chen HY, Shen ZX (2009) Polymer-encapsulated silver nanoparticle monomer and dimer for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Chem Phys Lett 473: 317-320.
8. Talley CE, Jackson JB, Oubre C, Grady NK, Hollars CW, Lane SM, Huse TR, Nordlander P, Halas NJ (2005) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from individual Au nanoparticles and nanoparticle dimer substrates. Nano Lett 5: 1569-1574.
9. Tong LM, Zhu T, Liu ZF (2008) Atomic force microscope manipulation of gold nanoparticles for controlled Raman enhancement. Appl Phys Lett 92: 023109.
10. Kneipp J, Li XT, Sherwood M, Panne U, Kneipp H, Stockman MI, Kneipp K (2008) Gold nanolenses generated by laser ablation-efficient enhancing structure for surface enhanced Raman scattering analytics and sensing. Anal Chem 80: 4247-4251.
11. Zhao YP, Chaney SB, Shanmukh S, Dluhy RA (2006) Polarized surface enhanced Raman and absorbance spectra of aligned silver nanorod arrays. J Phys Chem B 110: 3153-3157.
12. Mohanty P, Yoon I, Kang T, Seo K, Varadwaj KSK, Choi W, Park Q, Ahn JP, Suh YD, Ihee H, Kim B (2007) Simple vapor-phase synthesis of single-crystalline Ag nanowires and single-nanowire surface-enhanced Raman scattering. J Am Chem Soc 129: 9576-9577.
13. Yoon I, Kang T, Choi WJ, Kim JB, Yoo YD, Joo SW, Park QH, Ihee H, Kim B (2009) Single nanowire on a film as an efficient SERS-active plat form. J Am Chem Soc 131: 758-762.
14. Tao AR, Yang PD (2005) Polarized surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy on coupled metallic nanowire. J Phys Chem B 109: 15687-15690.
15. Jeong DH, Zhang YX, Moskovits M (2004) Polarized surface enhanced Raman scattering from aligned silver nanowire rafts. J Phys Chem B 108: 12724-12728.
16. Lee SJ, Baik JM, Moskovits M (2008) Polarization-dependent surface-enhanced Raman scattering from a silver-nanoparticle-decorated single silver nanowire. Nano Lett 8: 3244-3247.
17. Wei H, Hao F, Huang YZ, Wang WZ, Nordlander P, Xu HX (2008) Polarization dependence of surface-enhanced Raman scattering in gold nanoparticle-nanowire systems. Nano Lett 8: 2497-2502.
18. Kang T, Yoon I, Jeon K, Choi WJ, Lee Y, Seo K, Yoo Y, Park Q, Ihee H, Suh Y, Kim B (2009) Creating well-defined hot spots for surface-enhanced Raman scattering by single-crystalline noble metal nanowire pairs. J Phys Chem C 113: 7492-7496.
19. Camargo PHC, Cobley CM, Rycenga M, Xia YN (2009) Measuring the surface-enhanced Raman scattering enhancement factors of hot spots formed between an individual Ag nanowire and a single Ag nanocube. Nanotechnology 20: 434020.
20. Fang YR, Wei H, Hao F, Nordlander P, Xu HX (2009) Remote-excitation surface-enhanced Raman scattering using propagating Ag nanowire plasmons. Nano Lett 9: 2049-2053.
21. Wang ZH, Liu JW, Chen XY, Wan JX, Qian YT (2005) A simple hydrothermal route to large-scale synthesis of uniform silver nanowires. Chem Eur J 11: 160-163.
22. You YM, Purnawirman HuHL, Kasim J, Yang HP, Du CL, Yu T, Shen ZX (2010) Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using single-crystalline Ag nanowire as tip. J Raman Spectrosc 41: 1156-1162.
23. Du CL, Kasim J, You YM, Shi DN, Shen ZX (2011) Enhancement of Raman scattering by individual dielectric microspheres. J Raman Spectrosc 42: 145-148.
24. Orendorff CJ, Gole A, Sau TK, Murphy CJ (2005) Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of self-assembled monolayers: sandwich architecture and nanoparticle shape dependence. Anal Chem 77: 3261-3266.
25. Johnson PB, Christy RW (1972) Optical constants of noble metals. Phys Rev B 6: 4370-4739.
26. Nordlander P, Oubre C, Prodan E, Li K, Stockman MI (2004) Plasmon hybridization in nanoparticle dimers. Nano Lett 4: 899-903.
27. Sun YG, Gates B, Mayers B, Xia YN (2002) Crystalline silver nanowires by soft Solution processing. Nano Lett 2: 165-168.
28. Tao A, Kim F, Hess C, Goldberger J, He RR, Sun YG, Xia YN, Yang PD (2003) Langmuir-blodgett silver nanowire monolayers for molecular sensing using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Nano Lett 3: 1229-1233.