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Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics

, Volume 30, Issue 23, pp 20537–20543 | Cite as

Neodymium doped zinc oxide for ultersensitive SERS substrate

  • Ming Gao
  • Jiacheng Yao
  • Yingnan Quan
  • Jinghai Yang
  • Pengwei Huo
  • Jiangdong Dai
  • Yongsheng YanEmail author
  • Changchang MaEmail author
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Abstract

We report on the fabrication of neodymium doped zinc oxide (ZNO) for use in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The SERS enhancement of ZNO nanoparticles exhibited 7 times higher than that of pure zinc oxide. We analyzed in detail the enhancement mechanism of the ZNO. The detection limit of malachite green (MG) was 10−7 M, and the SERS signal intensity showed a good linear relationship with the logarithm of the MG concentration (R2 = 0.9817). This indicates that ZNO is an excellent SERS substrate for trace analysis and ultrasensitive molecular sensing. This study provides a new strategy to improve the overall SERS property of ZnO-based materials via chemical doping.

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This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20180884); Postdoctoral Fund of Jiangsu Province (1501067C).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringJiangsu UniversityZhenjiangPeople’s Republic of China
  2. 2.School of the Environment and Safety EngineeringJiangsu UniversityZhenjiangPeople’s Republic of China
  3. 3.National Demonstration Centre for Experimental Physics EducationJilin Normal UniversitySipingPeople’s Republic of China
  4. 4.Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry of the Ministry of EducationJilin Normal UniversityChangchunPeople’s Republic of China
  5. 5.Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, and National Demonstration Centre for Experimental Physics EducationJilin Normal UniversitySipingPeople’s Republic of China

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