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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Fabrication of Gold-Coated Ultra-Thin Anodic Porous Alumina Substrates for Augmented SERS.

Chiara Toccafondi, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Silvia Dante, Marco Salerno

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Chiara ToccafondiNanophysics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova 16163, Italy. chiara.toccafondi@polytechnique.edu.
Remo Proietti ZaccariaNanostructures Department Istituto Italiano, di Tecnologia, Genova 16163, Italy. remo.proietti@iit.it.
Silvia DanteNanophysics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova 16163, Italy. silvia.dante@iit.it.
Marco SalernoNanophysics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova 16163, Italy. marco.salerno@iit.it.

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Abstract

Anodic porous alumina (APA) is a nanostructured material used as a template in several nanotechnological applications. We propose the use of APA in ultra-thin form (<100 nm) for augmented surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Here, the effect of in-depth thinning of the APA nanostructures for possible maximization of SERS was addressed. Anodization was carried out on ultra-thin films of aluminum on glass and/or silicon, followed by pore-opening. Gold (Au) was overcoated and micro‑Raman/SERS measurements were carried out on test target analytes. Finite integration technique simulations of the APA-Au substrate were used both for the experimental design and simulations. It was observed that, under optimized conditions of APA and Au thickness, the SERS enhancement is higher than on standard APA-Au substrates based on thin (~100 nm) APA by up to a factor of ~20 for test molecules of mercaptobenzoic acid. The agreement between model and experimental results confirms the current understanding of SERS as being mainly due to the physical origin of plasmon resonances. The reported results represent one step towards micro-technological, integrated, disposable, high-sensitivity SERS chemical sensors and biosensors based on similar substrates.

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anodic porous aluminaenhancementhotspotsmercaptobenzoic acidnanostructuresSERSsurface plasmons

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PMCPMC5456800

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