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Enhanced by organic surfaces

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Nanostructured films of organic semiconductors are now shown to enhance the Raman signal of probe molecules, paving the way to the realization of substrates for Raman spectroscopy with molecular selectivity.

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Figure 1: Mechanisms for the enhancement of the Raman signal due to the interaction of a molecule with a semiconductor substrate.

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Lombardi, J. Enhanced by organic surfaces. Nature Mater 16, 878–880 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4958

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