ZHUANG MuDe,LIU Zheng,REN Bin* & TIAN ZhongQun State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces , Department of Chemistry,College of Chemistry , Chemical Engineering,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,China
Abstract:
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) has been used to obtain the Raman signal of surface species on silicon single crystal surfaces without the necessity for surface enhancement by addition of Ag nanoparticles. By illuminating the hydrogen terminated silicon surface covered with a droplet of 4-vinylpyridine with UV light, a 4-ethylpyridine modified silicon surface can be easily obtained. By bringing a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) Au tip with a nanoscale tip apex to a distance of ca. 1 nm from the m...