Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy using nanometer-sized gaps

We report on the near-field coupling of individual gold nanoantennas arranged in tip-to-tip dimer configuration, leading to strong electromagnetic field enhancements in the infrared, which is of great interest for sensing applications such as surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy. We quantitatively...

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Hauptverfasser: Huck, Christian (VerfasserIn) , Neubrech, Frank (VerfasserIn) , Vogt, Jochen (VerfasserIn) , Toma, Andrea (VerfasserIn) , Gerbert, David (VerfasserIn) , Katzmann, Julia (VerfasserIn) , Härtling, Thomas (VerfasserIn) , Pucci, Annemarie (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: April 11, 2014
In: ACS nano
Year: 2014, Jahrgang: 8, Heft: 5, Pages: 4908-4914
ISSN:1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn500903v
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Verfasserangaben:Christian Huck, Frank Neubrech, Jochen Vogt, Andrea Toma, David Gerbert, Julia Katzmann, Thomas Härtling, and Annemarie Pucci
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Zusammenfassung:We report on the near-field coupling of individual gold nanoantennas arranged in tip-to-tip dimer configuration, leading to strong electromagnetic field enhancements in the infrared, which is of great interest for sensing applications such as surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy. We quantitatively evaluated the enhancement of vibrational excitations of a 5 nm thick test layer of 4,4′-bis(N-carbazolyl)-1,1′-biphenyl as a function of different gap sizes. The dimers with the smallest gaps under investigation (∼3 nm) lead to more than 1 order of magnitude higher signal enhancement with respect to gaps of 50 nm width. The comparison of experimental data and finite-difference time-domain simulations reveals a nonperfect filling of the gaps with sizes below 10 nm, which means that morphological information on the nanoscale is obtained additionally to chemical information.
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ISSN:1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn500903v