Perforated nanocap array: Facile fabrication process and efficient surface enhanced Raman scattering with fluorescence suppression

Recently, individual reduced-symmetry metal nanostructures and their plasmonic properties have been studied extensively. However, little attention has been paid to the approach to fabricating ordered reduced-symmetry metal nanostructure arrays. In this paper, a novel perforated silver nanocap array with high surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity and fluorescence suppression is reported. The array is fabricated by electron beam evaporating Ag onto the perforated barrier layer side of a hard anodization (HA) anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template. The morphology and optical property of the perforated silver nanocap array are characterized by an atomic force microscope (AFM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and absorption spectra. The results of SERS measurements reveal that the perforated silver nanocap array offers high SERS activity and fluorescence suppression compared with an imperforated silver nanocap array.     

等臂L形银纳米天线的表面等离子特性研究

利用FDTD方法分析了由银纳米线形成的等臂L形光学共振天线的共振模式。研究了其场增强特性及共振散射谱的变化。L形纳米天线的近场增强特性强烈依赖于入射偏振,入射光偏振方向沿垂直于镜面对称轴方向时有最大一阶共振近场增强;入射光偏振方向沿镜面对称轴方向时有最大的二阶共振近场增强。