Fabrication and SERS Performances of Metal/Si and Metal/ZnO Nanosensors: A Review

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors are very powerful analytical tools for the highly sensitive detection of chemical and biological molecules. Substantial efforts have been devoted to the design of a great number of hybrid SERS substrates such as silicon or zinc oxide nanosystems coated with gold/silver nanoparticles. By comparison with the SERS sensors based on Au and Ag nanoparticles/nanostructures, higher enhancement factors and excellent reproducibilities are achieved with hybrid SERS nanosensors. This enhancement can be due to the appearance of hotspots located at the interface between the metal (Au/Ag) and the semiconducting substrates. Thus, in this last decade, great advances in the domain of hybrid SERS nanosensors have occurred. In this short review, the recent advances of these hybrid metal-coated semiconducting nanostructures as SERS sensors of chemical and biological molecules are presented.

Density Functional Calculation for BP/GaN Heterostructures

Recently, it has become indispensable to use semiconducting nanostructures in the production and development of electronic devices. In this study, the bulk and nanowire heterostructures of the BP / GaN system have been investigated for the structures pure and Te atom doped. In calculations, the plane wave self-consistent field program based on density functional theory was used. The average potentials of the aforementioned systems have been calculated and the interface effect has investigated.