Fiber surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors based on a double substrate “sandwich” structure

Author

Shi, Chao ; Gu, Claire ; Ghosh, Debraj ; Seballos, Leo ; Chen, Shaowei ; Zhang, Jin Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A new configuration was designed and tested based on ldquosandwichingrdquo target analyte molecules between two metal nanostructure substrates using surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which exhibits significantly higher SERS enhancement compared to just one substrate.

Keywords

biological techniques; chemical sensors; fibre optic sensors; organic compounds; surface enhanced Raman scattering; Rhodamine 6G test molecule; biological sensing applications; chemical sensing applications; double substrate sandwich structure; fiber surface enhanced Raman scattering sensors; molecular detection; optical fibers; tip coated multimode fiber; Biosensors; Chemical and biological sensors; Nanobioscience; Nanoparticles; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Probes; Raman scattering; Silver; (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (240.0240) Optics at surfaces; (240.6695) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571468