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Confocal Surface-Enhanced Raman Microscopy at the Surface of Noble Metals

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Raman Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization

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The optical and spectroscopic properties of nanoparticles are of interest for a wide variety of methodic and technical fields of applications. The investigation of nanoparticles requires convincing characterization methods with high spatial resolution. The surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a sensitive tool for characterizing the chemical structure of metal nanoparticles like gold, silver, or copper. If combined with local confocal microscopy it becomes a method for delivering optical and geometrical information of nanosize metallic structures. This method is called confocal surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) microscopy. The fundamentals and significance of confocal SERS microscopy are described based on literature data and recent results of own studies.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Fonds of the Chemical Industrie. We also acknowledge valuable discussions and experimental support given by Prof. A. J. Meixner (Universität Tübingen) and his former research fellows H. Kneppe, M. Weber, J. Schmidt, and T. Vosgröne.

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    H. Dietz, G. Sandmann, A. Anders & W. Plieth

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Dietz, H., Sandmann, G., Anders, A., Plieth, W. (2012). Confocal Surface-Enhanced Raman Microscopy at the Surface of Noble Metals. In: Kumar, C.S.S.R. (eds) Raman Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20620-7_8

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