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Fabrication of SERS Active Substrates by Nanoimprint Lithography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
A method for low-cost fabrication of SERS substrates in rapid and reproducible way based on nanoimprint lithography (NIL) method has been developed. The SERS enhancement for detection of Rhodamine 6G molecules is demonstrated on two model nanostructures comprising either Au nano-crescents or Ag nano-wells fabricated by this method. Numerical simulations based on discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method show that the observed enhancement of the SERS signal for the given geometries originates in hot-spots localized at the tips of the nanocrescent. For the nanowell, the hotspots are mainly localized inside the cavity, on the side of the nanodonut, or at the edge of the bottom nanodisc when it is excited by a laser at the wavelength of 785 nm.
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