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Fabrication of Sub-10-nm Plasmonic Gaps for Ultra-Sensitive Raman Spectroscopy

Cetin, Arif E.
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Yilmaz, Cihan
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Galarreta, Betty C.
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February 10, 2020
Plasmonics

The past two decades have witnessed the explosion of activities in the field of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). SERS platforms employ nano-structures that excite plasmonic modes with large local electromagnetic fields localized within small gap spaces between each constituting feature. Although the research-oriented SERS platforms yield significant signal enhancements to identify even single molecules, practical SERS-based sensors have not been fully introduced yet. The main reason behind this absence is the need for a cost-effective and reliable manufacturing method for controllable fabrication of plasmonic nano-gaps over large areas. In this article, we introduced a novel manufacturing process that enables fast and scalable fabrication of highly uniform sub-10-nm gaps that could yield large SERS signals. In this process, a conventional electroplating technique is used to produce unique nano-mushroom antenna arrays on a conducting substrate, resulting in controllable gap spaces between mushroom heads. By understanding the nature of mushroom shape antenna formation, we demonstrated the control of inter-metallic gaps down to 5 nm. We showed that the manufactured nano-structures yield Raman enhancements more than 10(8). Providing such large SERS signals that are uniform over large areas, our cost-effective fabrication technique could be very critical to realize practical SERS devices.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s11468-020-01137-3
Web of Science ID

WOS:000516068400001

Author(s)
Cetin, Arif E.
Yilmaz, Cihan
Galarreta, Betty C.
Yilmaz, Gizem
Altug, Hatice  
Busnaina, Ahmed
Date Issued

2020-02-10

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
Plasmonics
Volume

15

Start page

1165

End page

1171

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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plasmonics

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surface enhanced raman spectroscopy

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nano-fabrication

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scattering

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nanostructures

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nanogap

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