Surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot spot isolation using surface-enhanced multiphoton lithography

Eric D. Diebold; Paul Peng; Eric Mazur

doi:10.1117/12.842455

25 February 2010 Surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot spot isolation using surface-enhanced multiphoton lithography

Eric D. Diebold, Paul Peng, Eric Mazur

Proceedings Volume 7589, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications X; 75890Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842455
Event: SPIE LASE, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this Manuscript, we present the fabrication and spectroscopic characterization of a large-area surfaceenhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate, as well as a method for improving femtomole-level trace detection (10⁹ molecules) using this substrate. Using multiphoton-induced exposure of a commercial photoresist, we physically limit the available molecular adsorption sites to only the electromagnetic "hot spots" on the substrate. This process prevents molecules from adsorbing to sites of weak SERS enhancement, while permitting adsorption to sites of extraordinary SERS enhancement. For a randomly adsorbed submonolayer of benzenethiol molecules the average Raman scattering cross-section of the processed sample is 27 times larger than that of an unprocessed SERS substrate.

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Eric D. Diebold, Paul Peng, and Eric Mazur "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot spot isolation using surface-enhanced multiphoton lithography", Proc. SPIE 7589, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications X, 75890Q (25 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842455

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Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Photoresist materials

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