A look at the origin and magnitude of the chemical contribution to the enhancement mechanism of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS): Theory and experiment

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2599-2604

  Valley, Nicholas ^a   Greeneltch, Nathan ^a   Van Duyne, Richard P ^a   Schatz, George C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

benzenethiol; chemical mechanism of SERS; INRA SERS substrate; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BENZENETHIOLS; CHARGE-TRANSFER EXCITATIONS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; RELATIVE PEAK INTENSITY; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTRUM; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EXPERIMENTS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84882313405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4012383     Document Type: Article

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