Title
Fabrication of Sub-10-nm Plasmonic Gaps for Ultra-Sensitive Raman Spectroscopy
Date Issued
01 August 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
The past two decades have witnessed the explosion of activities in the field of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). SERS platforms employ nano-structures that excite plasmonic modes with large local electromagnetic fields localized within small gap spaces between each constituting feature. Although the research-oriented SERS platforms yield significant signal enhancements to identify even single molecules, practical SERS-based sensors have not been fully introduced yet. The main reason behind this absence is the need for a cost-effective and reliable manufacturing method for controllable fabrication of plasmonic nano-gaps over large areas. In this article, we introduced a novel manufacturing process that enables fast and scalable fabrication of highly uniform sub-10-nm gaps that could yield large SERS signals. In this process, a conventional electroplating technique is used to produce unique nano-mushroom antenna arrays on a conducting substrate, resulting in controllable gap spaces between mushroom heads. By understanding the nature of mushroom shape antenna formation, we demonstrated the control of inter-metallic gaps down to 5 nm. We showed that the manufactured nano-structures yield Raman enhancements more than 108. Providing such large SERS signals that are uniform over large areas, our cost-effective fabrication technique could be very critical to realize practical SERS devices.
Start page
1165
End page
1171
Volume
15
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85079464470
Source
Plasmonics
ISSN of the container
15571955
Sponsor(s)
A.E.C. acknowledges Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center Start-Up Research Grant and the BAGEP Award of the Science Academy.
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