SERS Amplification from Self-Organized Arrays of Plasmonic Nanocrescents
2016
Giordano, Maria Caterina | Foti, Antonino | Messina, Elena | Gucciardi, Pietro Giuseppe | Comoretto, Davide | Buatier de Mongeot, Francesco
We report on the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) efficiency of self-organized arrays of Au nanocrescents confined on monolayers of polystyrene nanospheres. A dichroic SERS emission in the visible spectrum is observed due to the selective excitation of a localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance along the “short axis” of the Au nanocrescents. Under these conditions SERS signal amplifications in the range of 10³ have been observed with respect to a flat reference Au film. The far field and near field plasmonic response of Au nanocrescent arrays have been investigated as a function of the metal dose deposited onto the polymeric spheres. In this way, we show the possibility of simply tailoring the SERS emission by engineering the morphology of the plasmonic nanocrescents. We highlight the SERS activity of chains of satellite nanoclusters that decorate the border of each connected crescent and sustain isotropic high energy LSP resonances in the visible spectrum.
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