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SMALL
Volume 7, Issue 16, Pages 2365-2371Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201100686
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- US Department of Energy Office of Science Laboratory [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The cost-effective self-assembly of 80 nm Au nanoparticles (NPs) into large-domain, hexagonally close-packed arrays for high-sensitivity and high-fidelity surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is demonstrated. These arrays exhibit specific optical resonances due to strong interparticle coupling, which are well reproduced by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. The gaps between NPs form a regular lattice of hot spots that enable a large amplification of both photoluminescence and Raman signals. At smaller wavelengths the hot spots are extended away from the minimum-gap positions, which allows SERS of larger analytes that do not fit into small gaps. Using CdSe quantum dots (QDs) a 3-5 times larger photoluminescence enhancement than previously reported is experimentally demonstrated and an unambiguous estimate of the electromagnetic SERS enhancement factor of approximate to 10(4) is obtained by direct scanning electron microscopy imaging of QDs responsible for the Raman signal. Much stronger enhancement of approximate to 10(8) is obtained at larger wavelengths for benzenethiol molecules penetrating the NP gaps.
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