Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: A Technique of Choice for Molecular Detection

Abstract:

Although surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has crossed its infancy long ago, it is yet to persuade different challenges to make it available in day-to-day applications. SERS is being criticized mainly due to the quality of the SERS analyses that uses substrates to get the giant enhancement for respective Raman signal of the target molecule. Hence, understanding the phenomena behind substrates, cost-effective development and optimization of such substrates for routine analytical purposes and utilization of modern modalities to get the insights out has become a very wide-spreading and interesting area of research. In this piece of work, several key terminologies related to SERS have been presented in brief. Since SERS is a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) mediated signal-enhancing phenomena, it is indispensable to understand the correlation between LSPR excitations originated from substrate and SERS signal originated from molecules. A wide range of SERS-active substrates including scattered nanoaggregates, anisotropic assembly, two-dimensional nanostructure, multi-layered nanostructure of gold nanoparticles and colloidal approach have been used to interpret such correlation between LSPR excitations and SERS characteristics. Few exemplary applications of SERS have been also mentioned followed by typical simulative work how nanoobject behaves at different excitations and polarizations.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 754)
• Pages: 143-169
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.754.143
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Mohammad Kamal Hossain
• Keywords: FDTD Simulation, Gold Nanoparticles (GNP), Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR), Molecule Detection, Nanostructure, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

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