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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2016

SERS of Individual Nanoparticles on a Mirror: Size Does Matter, but so Does Shape.

Felix Benz, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Andrew Salmon, Hamid Ohadi, Bart de Nijs, Jan Mertens, Cloudy Carnegie, Richard W Bowman, Jeremy J Baumberg

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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74 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Felix BenzNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Rohit ChikkaraddyNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Andrew SalmonNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Hamid OhadiNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Bart de NijsNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Jan MertensNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Cloudy CarnegieNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Richard W BowmanNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Jeremy J BaumbergNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.

Funding

European Research Council 320503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coupling noble metal nanoparticles by a 1 nm gap to an underlying gold mirror confines light to extremely small volumes, useful for sensing on the nanoscale. Individually measuring 10 000 of such gold nanoparticles of increasing size dramatically shows the different scaling of their optical scattering (far-field) and surface-enhanced Raman emission (SERS, near-field). Linear red-shifts of the coupled plasmon modes are seen with increasing size, matching theory. The total SERS from the few hundred molecules under each nanoparticle dramatically increases with increasing size. This scaling shows that maximum SERS emission is always produced from the largest nanoparticles, irrespective of tuning to any plasmonic resonances. Changes of particle facet with nanoparticle size result in vastly weaker scaling of the near-field SERS, without much modifying the far-field, and allows simple approaches for optimizing practical sensing.

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PMID27223478
PMCPMC4916483

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