Integrate silver colloids with silicon nanowire arrays for surface-enhanced Raman scattering
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2011-05-27
发表刊物:NANOTECHNOLOGY
收录刊物:PubMed、EI、SCIE、Scopus
卷号:22
期号:21
页面范围:215701
ISSN号:0957-4484
摘要:A facile method to prepare uniform and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates is presented. Quasi-spherical silver colloids prepared by microwave heating and wafer-scale uniform silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays fabricated via wet chemical etching were united together as SERS substrates. The novel SERS substrates displayed stronger Raman enhancement than conventional silver colloids as well as outstanding uniformity and reproducibility in our experiments. In addition, it was found that the cross section of SiNW arrays possessed stronger enhancement activity than the front side. The enhancement effects of two adjacent SiNWs (as a simplification of SiNW arrays) were evaluated by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method.
