Tunable 3D Plasmonic Cavity Nanosensors for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Sub-femtomolar Limit of Detection

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 752-759

  Tabatabaei, Mohammadali ^a   Najiminaini, Mohamadreza ^b,c,d   Davieau, Kieffer ^a,b   Kaminska, Bozena ^d   Singh, Mahi R ^a   Carson, Jeffrey J L ^b,c   Lagugné Labarthet, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D nanosensor; localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); plasmonics; sub femtomolar limit of detection; surface plasmon polariton (SPP); surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GOLD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MOLECULES; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONICS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84935020165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00104     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Brolo, A. G. Plasmonics for future biosensors Nat. Photonics 2012, 6, 709-713
2. Passarelli, N.; Pérez, L. A.; Coronado, E. A. Plasmonic interactions: from molecular plasmonics and Fano resonances to ferroplasmons ACS Nano 2014, 8, 9723-9728
3. Sonntag, M. D.; Klingsporn, J. M.; Zrimsek, A. B.; Sharma, B.; Ruvuna, L. K.; Van Duyne, R. P. Molecular plasmonics for nanoscale spectroscopy Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 1230-1247
4. Baffou, G.; Quidant, R. Nanoplasmonics for chemistry Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 3898-3907
5. Fleischmann, M.; Hendra, P. J.; McQuillan, A. J. Raman spectra of pyridine adsorbed at a silver electrode J. Chem. Phys. Lett. 1974, 26, 163-166
6. Jeanmaire, D. L.; Van Duyne, R. P. Surface Raman spectroelectrochemistry: Part I. Heterocyclic, aromatic, and aliphatic amines adsorbed on the anodized silver electrode J. Electroanal. Chem. 19977, 84, 1-20
7. Nie, S.; Emory, S. R. Probing single molecules and single nanoparticles by surface-enhanced Raman scattering Science 1997, 275, 1102-1106
8. Kneipp, K.; Wang, Y.; Kneipp, H.; Perelman, L. T.; Itzkan, I.; Dasari, R. R.; Feld, M. S. Single molecule detection using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) Phys. Rev. Lett. 1997, 78, 1667-1670
9. Sheehan, P. E.; Whitman, L. J. Detection limits for nanoscale biosensors Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 803-807
10. Squires, T. M.; Messinger, R. J.; Manalis, S. R. Making it stick: convection, reaction and diffusion in surface-based biosensors Nat. Biotechnol. 2008, 26, 417-426
11. Kumar, S.; Cherukulappurath, S.; Johnson, T. W.; Oh, S.-H. Millimeter-sized suspended plasmonic nanohole arrays for surface-tension-driven flow-through SERS Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 6523-6530
12. Brolo, A. G.; Arctander, E.; Gordon, R.; Leathem, B.; Kavanagh, K. L. Nanohole-enhanced Raman scattering Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 2015-2018
13. Im, H.; Sutherland, J. N.; Maynard, J. A.; Oh, S.-H. Nanohole-based surface plasmon resonance instruments with improved spectral resolution quantify a broad range of antibody-ligand binding kinetics Anal. Chem. 2012, 84, 1941-1947
14. Barnes, W. L.; Dereux, A.; Ebbesen, T. W. Surface plasmon subwavelength optics Nature 2003, 424, 824-830
15. Ebbesen, T. W.; Lezec, H. J.; Ghaemi, H. F.; Thio, T.; Wolff, P. A. Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays Nature 1998, 391, 667-669
16. Valsecchi, C.; Brolo, A. G. Periodic metallic nanostructures as plasmonic chemical sensors Langmuir 2013, 29, 5638-5649
17. Lee, M.; Kim, J.; Seo, W.; Hong, H.-G.; Song, Y.; Dasari, R. R.; An, K. Three-dimensional imaging of cavity vacuum with single atoms localized by a nanohole array Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 3441
18. Krishnan, A.; Thio, T.; Kim, T. J.; Lezec, H. J.; Ebbesen, T. W.; Wolff, P. A.; Pendry, J.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Garcia-Vidal, F. J. Evanescently coupled resonance in surface plasmon enhanced transmission Opt. Commun. 2001, 200, 1-7
19. Najiminaini, M.; Vasefi, F.; Kaminska, B.; Carson, J. J. L. Effect of surface plasmon energy matching on the sensing capability of metallic nano-hole arrays Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 100, 063110
20. Najiminaini, M.; Vasefi, F.; Kaminska, B.; Carson, J. J. L. Nano-hole array structure with improved surface plasmon energy matching characteristics Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 100, 043105
21. Przybilla, F.; Degiron, A.; Laluet, J.-Y.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. Optical transmission in perforated noble and transition metal films J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 2006, 8, 458
22. Brolo, A. G.; Gordon, R.; Leathem, B.; Kavanagh, K. L. Surface plasmon sensor based on the enhanced light transmission through arrays of nanoholes in gold films Langmuir 2004, 20, 4813-4815
23. Najiminaini, M.; Ertorer, E.; Kaminska, B.; Mittler, S.; Carson, J. J. L. Surface plasmon resonance sensing properties of a 3D nanostructure consisting of aligned nanohole and nanocone arrays Analyst 2014, 139, 1876-1882
24. Gordon, R.; Sinton, D.; Kavanagh, K. L.; Brolo, A. G. A new generation of sensors based on extraordinary optical transmission Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41, 1049-1057
25. Im, H.; Wittenberg, N. J.; Lesuffleur, A.; Lindquist, N. C.; Oh, S.-H. Membrane protein biosensing with plasmonic nanopore arrays and pore-spanning lipid membranes Chem. Sci. 2010, 1, 688-696
26. Im, H.; Lee, S. H.; Wittenberg, N. J.; Johnson, T. W.; Lindquist, N. C.; Nagpal, P.; Norris, D. J.; Oh, S.-H. Template-stripped smooth Ag nanohole arrays with silica shells for surface plasmon resonance biosensing ACS Nano 2011, 5, 6244-6253
27. Wang, Y.; Kar, A.; Paterson, A.; Kourentzi, K.; Le, H.; Ruchhoeft, P.; Willson, R.; Bao, J. Transmissive nanohole arrays for massively-parallel optical biosensing ACS Photonics 2014, 1, 241-245
28. Ricciardi, A.; Consales, M.; Quero, G.; Crescitelli, A.; Esposito, E.; Cusano, A. Versatile optical fiber nanoprobes: from plasmonic biosensors to polarization-sensitive devices ACS Photonics 2014, 1, 69-78
29. Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. Light in tiny holes Nature 2007, 445, 39-46
30. Yokogawa, S.; Burgos, S. P.; Atwater, H. A. Plasmonic color filters for CMOS image sensor applications Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 4349-4354
31. Yanik, A. A.; Cetin, A. E.; Huang, M.; Artar, A.; Mousavi, S. H.; Khanikaev, A.; Connor, J. H.; Shvets, G.; Altug, H. Seeing protein monolayers with naked eye through plasmonic Fano resonances Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2011, 108, 11784-11789
32. Cervantes Tellez, G. A.; Hassan, S. a.; Tait, R. N.; Berini, P.; Gordon, R. Atomically flat symmetric elliptical nanohole arrays in a gold film for ultrasensitive refractive index sensing Lab Chip 2013, 13, 2541-2546
33. Fayyaz, S.; Tabatabaei, M.; Hou, R.; Lagugné-Labarthet, F. Surface-enhanced fluorescence: mapping individual hot spots in silica-protected 2D gold nanotriangle arrays J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 11665-11670
34. Aroca, R. F.; Ross, D. J.; Domingo, C. Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy Appl. Spectrosc. 2004, 58, 324A-338A
35. Jensen, T.; Kelly, L.; Lazarides, A.; Schatz, G. Electrodynamics of noble metal nanoparticles and nanoparticle clusters J. Cluster Sci. 1999, 10, 295-317
36. Merlen, A.; Lagugné-Labarthet, F. Imaging the optical near field in plasmonic nanostructures Appl. Spectrosc. 2014, 68, 1307-1326
37. Bukasov, R.; Ali, T. A.; Nordlander, P.; Shumaker-Parry, J. S. Probing the plasmonic near-field of gold nanocrescent antennas ACS Nano 2010, 4, 6639-6650
38. Tabatabaei, M.; Sangar, A.; Kazemi-Zanjani, N.; Torchio, P.; Merlen, A.; Lagugné-Labarthet, F. Optical properties of silver and gold tetrahedral nanopyramid arrays prepared by nanosphere lithography J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 14778-14786
39. Brown, L. V.; Yang, X.; Zhao, K.; Zheng, B. Y.; Nordlander, P.; Halas, N. J. Fan-shaped gold nanoantennas above reflective substrates for surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 1272-1280
40. Yu, Q.; Guan, P.; Qin, D.; Golden, G.; Wallace, P. M. Inverted size-dependence of surface-enhanced Raman scattering on gold nanohole and nanodisk arrays Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 1923-1928
41. Zheng, P.; Cushing, S. K.; Suri, S.; Wu, N. Tailoring plasmonic properties of gold nanohole arrays for surface-enhanced Raman scattering Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 10.1039/C4CP05291A
42. Palik, E. D. Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids; Academic Press: New York, 1985.
43. Thio, T.; Ghaemi, H. F.; Lezec, H. J.; Wolff, P. A.; Ebbesen, T. W. Surface-plasmon-enhanced transmission through hole arrays in Cr films J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1999, 16, 1743-1748
44. Skadtchenko, B. O.; Aroca, R. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of p-nitrothiophenol: Molecular vibrations of its silver salt and the surface complex formed on silver islands and colloids Spectrochim. Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. 2001, 57, 1009-1016
45. Marquestaut, N.; Martin, A.; Talaga, D.; Servant, L.; Ravaine, S.; Reculusa, S.; Bassani, D. M.; Gillies, E.; Lagugné-Labarthet, F. Raman enhancement of azobenzene monolayers on substrates prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett deposition and electron-beam lithography techniques Langmuir 2008, 24, 11313-11321
46. Schatz, G. C.; Young, M. A.; Van Duyne, R. P. In Surface-enhanced Raman scattering; Kneipp, K.; Moskovits, M.; Kneipp, H., Eds.; Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 2006; Vol. 103, pp 19-46.
47. Félidj, N.; Truong, S. L.; Aubard, J.; Lévi, G.; Krenn, J. R.; Hohenau, A.; Leitner, A.; Aussenegg, F. R. Gold particle interaction in regular arrays probed by surface enhanced Raman scattering J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 120, 7141-7146
48. Félidj, N.; Aubard, J.; Lévi, G.; Krenn, J. R.; Salerno, M.; Schider, G.; Lamprecht, B.; Leitner, A.; Aussenegg, F. R. Controlling the optical response of regular arrays of gold particles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering Phys. Rev. B 2002, 65, 075419