scholarly journals Wafer-scale fabrication of high-quality tunable gold nanogap arrays for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (25) ◽  
pp. 12152-12160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Le-The ◽  
Jasper J. A. Lozeman ◽  
Marta Lafuente ◽  
Pablo Muñoz ◽  
Johan G. Bomer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Robust Method ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Wafer Scale ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

A robust method is developed for large-scale fabrication of high-quality tunable gold nanogap arrays at low-cost for surface-enhanced Raman scattering.

scholarly journals Large-Scale Fabrication of Ultrasensitive and Uniform Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for the Trace Detection of Pesticides

Nanomaterials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Zhu ◽  
Guanzhou Lin ◽  
Meizhang Wu ◽  
Zhuojie Chen ◽  
Peimin Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Capillary Flow ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Ag Nps ◽  
Uniform Size ◽  
Sers Substrates ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

Technology transfer from laboratory into practical application needs to meet the demands of economic viability and operational simplicity. This paper reports a simple and convenient strategy to fabricate large-scale and ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. In this strategy, no toxic chemicals or sophisticated instruments are required to fabricate the SERS substrates. On one hand, Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with relatively uniform size were synthesized using the modified Tollens method, which employs an ultra-low concentration of Ag+ and excessive amounts of glucose as a reducing agent. On the other hand, when a drop of the colloidal Ag NPs dries on a horizontal solid surface, the droplet becomes ropy, turns into a layered structure under gravity, and hardens. During evaporation, capillary flow was burdened by viscidity resistance from the ropy glucose solution. Thus, the coffee-ring effect is eliminated, leading to a uniform deposition of Ag NPs. With this method, flat Ag NPs-based SERS active films were formed in array-well plates defined by hole-shaped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) structures bonded on glass substrates, which were made for convenient detection. The strong SERS activity of these substrates allowed us to reach detection limits down to 10−14 M of Rhodamine 6 G and 10−10 M of thiram (pesticide).

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