基于气相沉积等离激元纳米粒子/三维石墨烯-镍泡沫复合结构的高灵敏度表面增强拉曼检测

本文提出一种基于气相沉积银纳米粒子和三维石墨烯-镍泡沫的复合等离激元结构.该结构是利用气相纳米团簇束流技术将高密度的银纳米粒子直接沉积于三维石墨烯-镍泡沫的表面制备而成.与传统银纳米结构相比,复合三维等离激元纳米结构具有"热点"数量多,局域场更强的特点,可作为基于表面增强拉曼技术的高灵敏度化学传感器.拉曼测试实验结果表明,该三维纳米结构在表面增强拉曼检测中可获得灵敏度高,重复性好的探针拉曼信号.通过进一步的理论模拟,发现该三维等离激元结构中增强的拉曼信号主要归因于纳米粒子与纳米粒子之间以及纳米粒子与石墨烯-镍泡沫衬底之间的多重近场耦合效应.

Gas-Phase Deposited Plasmonic Nanoparticles Supported on 3D-Graphene/Nickel Foam for Highly SERS Detection

In this work, we proposed a novel three-dimensional (3D) plasmonic nanostructure based on porous graphene/nickel foam (GNF) and gas-phase deposited Ag nanoparticles (NPs). Ag NPs with high density were directly deposited on the surface of 3D GNF by performing a novel cluster beam deposition approach. In comparison with traditional Ag substrate (SiO₂/Ag), such hot-spots enriched 3D nanostructure showed extremely high electromag-netic field enhancement under incident light irradiation which could be used as a sensitive chemical sensor based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed nanostructure showed superior SERS performance in terms of Raman signal reproducibility and sensitivity for the probe molecules. 3D full-wave simulation showed that the enhanced SERS performance in this 3D hierarchical plasmonic nanostructure was mainly obtained from the hot-spots between Ag NPs and the near-field coupling between Ag NPs and GNF sca olds. This work can provide a novel assembled SERS substrate as a SERS-based chemical sensor in practical applications.