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Zeng Y, Ananth R, Dill TJ, Rodarte A, Rozin MJ, Bradshaw N, Brown ER, Tao AR. Metasurface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (mSERS) for Oriented Molecular Sensing. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:32598-32607. [PMID: 35816614 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a widely used sensing technique for ultrasensitivity chemical sensing, biomedical detection, and environmental analysis. Because SERS signal is proportional to the fourth power of the local electric field, several SERS applications have focused on the design of plasmonic nanogaps to take advantage of the extremely strong near-field enhancement that results from plasmonic coupling, but few designs have focused on how SERS detection is affected by molecular orientation within these nanogaps. Here, we demonstrate a nanoparticle-on-metal metasurface designed for near-perfect optical absorption as a platform for Raman detection of highly oriented molecular analytes, including two-dimensional materials and aromatic molecules. This metasurface platform overcomes challenges in nanoparticle aggregation, which commonly leads to low or fluctuating Raman signals in other colloidal nanoparticle platforms. Our metasurface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (mSERS) platform is based on a colloidal Langmuir-Schaefer deposition, with up to 32% surface coverage density of nanogaps across an entire sensor chip. In this work, we perform both simulations of the local electric field and experimental characterization of the mSERS signal obtained for oriented molecular layers. We then demonstrate this mSERS platform for the quantitative detection of the drinking-water toxin polybrominated diphenyl ether (BDE-15), with a limit of detection of 0.25 μM under 530 μW excitation. This detection limit is comparable to other SERS-based sensors operating at laser powers over 3 orders of magnitude higher, indicating the promise of our mSERS platform for nondestructive and low-level analyte detection.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yuan Zeng
- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
- Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
- Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
- Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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The vast majority of modern microelectronic devices rely on carriers within semiconductors due to their integrability. Therefore, the performance of these devices is limited due to natural semiconductor properties such as band gap and electron velocity. Replacing the semiconductor channel in conventional microelectronic devices with a gas or vacuum channel may scale their speed, wavelength and power beyond what is available today. However, liberating electrons into gas/vacuum in a practical microelectronic device is quite challenging. It often requires heating, applying high voltages, or using lasers with short wavelengths or high powers. Here, we show that the interaction between an engineered resonant surface and a low-power infrared laser can cause enough photoemission via electron tunnelling to implement feasible microelectronic devices such as transistors, switches and modulators. The proposed photoemission-based devices benefit from the advantages of gas-plasma/vacuum electronic devices while preserving the integrability of semiconductor-based devices.
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- Ebrahim Forati
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92098-0407, USA
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92098-0448, USA
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92098-0448, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92098-0407, USA
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Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy enables access to chemical information with nanoscale spatial resolution and single-molecule sensitivities by utilizing optical probes that are capable of confining light to subwavelength dimensions. Because the probes themselves possess nanoscale features, they are notoriously difficult to fabricate, and more critically, can result in poor reproducibility. Here, we demonstrate high-performance, predictable, and readily tunable nanospectroscopy probes that are fabricated by self-assembly. Shaped metal nanoparticles are organized into dense layers and deposited onto scanning probe tips. When coupled to a metal surface, these probes behave like nanoantenna by supporting a strong optical resonance, producing dramatic Raman field enhancements in the range of 10(8)-10(9) with sub-50 nm spatial resolution. In contrast to other nanospectroscopy probes, our colloidal probes can be fabricated in a scalable fashion with a batch-to-batch reproducibility of ∼80% and serve as an important demonstration of bottom-up engineering.
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- Tyler J Dill
- NanoEngineering Department, University of California , San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- NanoEngineering Department, University of California , San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- NanoEngineering Department, University of California , San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- NanoEngineering Department, University of California , San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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Dill TJ, Rozin MJ, Brown ER, Palani S, Tao AR. Investigating the effect of Ag nanocube polydispersity on gap-mode SERS enhancement factors. Analyst 2016; 141:3916-24. [DOI: 10.1039/c6an00212a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Colloidal polydispersity has a significant impact on the high Raman enhancement factors (EFs) for nanoparticle-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates.
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- Tyler J. Dill
- NanoEngineering Department
- University of California
- San Diego
- La Jolla
- USA
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- NanoEngineering Department
- University of California
- San Diego
- La Jolla
- USA
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- NanoEngineering Department
- University of California
- San Diego
- La Jolla
- USA
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- NanoEngineering Department
- University of California
- San Diego
- La Jolla
- USA
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- NanoEngineering Department
- University of California
- San Diego
- La Jolla
- USA
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Zaretski AV, Marin BC, Moetazedi H, Dill TJ, Jibril L, Kong C, Tao AR, Lipomi DJ. Using the thickness of graphene to template lateral subnanometer gaps between gold nanostructures. Nano Lett 2015; 15:635-40. [PMID: 25555061 DOI: 10.1021/nl504121w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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This work demonstrates the use of single-layer graphene as a template for the formation of subnanometer plasmonic gaps using a scalable fabrication process called "nanoskiving." These gaps are formed between parallel gold nanowires in a process that first produces three-layer thin films with the architecture gold/single-layer graphene/gold, and then sections the composite films with an ultramicrotome. The structures produced can be treated as two gold nanowires separated along their entire lengths by an atomically thin graphene nanoribbon. Oxygen plasma etches the sandwiched graphene to a finite depth; this action produces a subnanometer gap near the top surface of the junction between the wires that is capable of supporting highly confined optical fields. The confinement of light is confirmed by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy measurements, which indicate that the enhancement of the electric field arises from the junction between the gold nanowires. These experiments demonstrate nanoskiving as a unique and easy-to-implement fabrication technique that is capable of forming subnanometer plasmonic gaps between parallel metallic nanostructures over long, macroscopic distances. These structures could be valuable for fundamental investigations as well as applications in plasmonics and molecular electronics.
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- Aliaksandr V Zaretski
- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive Mail Code 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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