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Periodic metal resonator chains for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

Optics 2021-12-22 v2

Abstract

A periodic arrangement of chains of gold discs shows pronounced plasmonic grating resonances. These have a clear impact on the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)-signal from 4-methylbenzenethiol molecules which form self-assembled monolayers on the gold surface: Besides a clear polarisation dependence the SERS-spectra also exhibit a maximum when the excitation laser wavelength matches the plamonic grating resonance. These features are explained by a combined near and far field coupling of the individual plasmonic dipoles allowing the design of optimized nanostructures for effective SERS-substrates in the future.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10709,
  title  = {Periodic metal resonator chains for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)},
  author = {Jan Sievers and Frank Heyroth and Sven Schlenker and Georg Schmidt and Alexander Sprafke and Marcel Below and Carsten Reinhardt and Jörg Schilling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10709},
  year   = {2021}
}
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