Silver nanoparticles produced by laser ablation for a study on the effect of SERS with low laser power on N719 dye and Rhodamine-B

MRS Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 723-731
Author(s):  
Nelson Fabian Villegas Borrero ◽  
José Maria Clemente da Silva Filho ◽  
Viktor A. Ermakov ◽  
Francisco Chagas Marques

ABSTRACTThe effect of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was investigated in N719 dye thin films deposited on silicon wafer with a thin film of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) fabricated by laser ablation in an aqueous solution, using a NdYAG laser (λ = 1064nm). Optical absorption spectroscopy of the Ag-NPs colloidal solution shows an absorption peak at λ = 400nm, associated with a localized surface plasmon resonance in the Ag-NPs. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) reveals that these NPs have an approximately spherical shape, with their diameter being tunable by laser power intensity. Raman spectroscopy measurements were performed using low laser power to avoid damage to the N719 dye films. Thus, a small Raman signal is obtained. The Raman intensity was greatly increased when the N719 film was deposited on a substrate with a thin film of Ag-NPs due to the SERS effect. The process was also used in Rhodamine-B to clearly demonstrate the SERS effect obtained by the use of these NPs produced by laser ablation.

The Analyst ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 141 (18) ◽  
pp. 5382-5389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trang H. D. Nguyen ◽  
Peng Zhou ◽  
Azlin Mustapha ◽  
Mengshi Lin

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are one of the top five engineered nanoparticles that have been used in various products.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Scott G. Harroun ◽  
Yaoting Zhang ◽  
Yu-Syuan Lin ◽  
Huan-Tsung Chang

Thymine-1-acetic acid (TAA) is a modified nucleobase often used to add thymine functionality to materials. This study reports the Raman band assignments for TAA by comparing its experimental and density functional theory (DFT) simulated Raman spectra. Further comparison of experimental surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of TAA on silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) with simulated spectra of various complexes of xAg+ (x = 1, 2, or 3) and TAA reveals its likely adsorption orientation on the Ag NPs. This is one of the few studies that has achieved reasonably accurate simulation of SERS by employing multiple unconnected Ag+ ions, which could represent a compromise between a single atom or ion on one hand and a computationally expensive cluster on the other.


Author(s):  
Scott G. Harroun ◽  
Yaoting Zhang ◽  
Tzu-Heng Chen ◽  
Huan-Tsung Chang ◽  
Alexis Vallée-Bélisle

For simulation of SERS on silver nanoparticles, Ag2O can provide a more accurate result than standard model surfaces such as Ag+, Ag, Ag4+ and Ag4.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Wahadoszamen ◽  
Arifur Rahaman ◽  
Nabil Md. Rakinul Hoque ◽  
Aminul I Talukder ◽  
Kazi Monowar Abedin ◽  
...  

A dispersive Raman spectrometer was used with three different excitation sources (Argon-ion, He-Ne, and Diode lasers operating at 514.5 nm, 633 nm, and 782 nm, resp.). The system was employed to a variety of Raman active compounds. Many of the compounds exhibit very strong fluorescence while being excited with a laser emitting at UV-VIS region, hereby imposing severe limitation to the detection efficiency of the particular Raman system. The Raman system with variable excitation laser sources provided us with a desired flexibility toward the suppression of unwanted fluorescence signal. With this Raman system, we could detect and specify the different vibrational modes of various hazardous organic compounds and some typical dyes (both fluorescent and nonfluorescent). We then compared those results with the ones reported in literature and found the deviation within the range of ±2 cm−1, which indicates reasonable accuracy and usability of the Raman system. Then, the surface enhancement technique of Raman spectrum was employed to the present system. To this end, we used chemically prepared colloidal suspension of silver nanoparticles as substrate and Rhodamine 6G as probe. We could observe significant enhancement of Raman signal from Rhodamine 6G using the colloidal solution of silver nanoparticles the average magnitude of which is estimated to be 103.


Nanoscale ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da Li ◽  
Philippe Nizard ◽  
Delphine Onidas ◽  
Aazdine Lamouri ◽  
Jean Pinson ◽  
...  

The surface functionalization of silver nanoparticles (NPs) by Raman reporters has stimulated a wide interest in recent years for the design of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) labels. However, silver NPs...


2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 1849-1860
Author(s):  
Cristina M. Muntean ◽  
Nicoleta E. Dina ◽  
Maria Coroş ◽  
Nicoleta Toşa ◽  
Alexandru I. Turza ◽  
...  

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