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Plasmonic Enhancement by a Continuous Gold Underlayer: Application to SERS Sensing

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In this paper, we report on an improved enhancement of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect. Such improvement is obtained by using a continuous gold film (underlayer), which is added below an array of gold nanostructures. Two types of nanostructures were studied to validate our results: regular disk arrays with two diameters (110 and 210 nm) and lines with a width of 110 nm, all on a gold film of 30 nm thick. A supplementary gain of one order of magnitude on the SERS enhancement factor (EF) was experimentally demonstrated for several excitation wavelengths: 633, 660, and 785 nm. With such SERS substrates, EFs of 107 are observed for thiophenol detection. This opens the way towards routine and reliable detection of molecules at low concentration.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge ANR P2N (ANR-12-NANO-0016) and the support of the French Government for partial funding of the project in which this work takes place. This work was partly supported by the French RENATECH network. IOGS/CNRS is also part of the European Network of Excellence in BioPhotonics, Photonics for Life, P4L.

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  1. Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale, CNRS, Univ Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Bâtiment 220, rue André Ampère, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Jean-François Bryche, Grégory Barbillon, Philippe Gogol & Bernard Bartenlian

  2. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, CNRS, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Saclay, 2 Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91127, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Jean-François Bryche, Raymond Gillibert, Julien Moreau & Michael Canva

  3. Laboratoire CSPBAT, Université de Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS, 74 Rue Marcel-Cachin, 93017, Bobigny, France

    Raymond Gillibert & Marc Lamy de la Chapelle

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    Raymond Gillibert

  5. Laboratoire Nanotechnologie Nanosystème, LN2 UMI CNRS 3463, 3IT, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

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Bryche, JF., Gillibert, R., Barbillon, G. et al. Plasmonic Enhancement by a Continuous Gold Underlayer: Application to SERS Sensing. Plasmonics 11, 601–608 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-0088-y

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