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JOURNAL OF APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 76, Issue 2, Pages 280-287Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10812-009-9175-1
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SERS-active substrates; porous silicon; water-soluble porphyrins
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We have optimized the procedure for preparation of nanostructured silver films on the surface of mesoporous silicon (PSi) to use them as active substrates in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The greatest enhancement of the SERS signal was observed for samples obtained when the silver was deposited on PSi from an aqueous AgNO3 solution with concentration 1a <...10(-2) M over a 10-15 minute period. The detection limit for rhodamine 6G on SERS-active substrates prepared by the optimized procedure was 1a <...10(-10) M. The enhancement factor for the SERS signal on these surfaces was estimated as a parts per thousand 2a <...10(8). We have shown that SERS-active substrates based on mesoporous silicon are promising for detection and study of complex organic compounds, in particular tetrapyrrole molecules.
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