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Principle and Application of Tip-enhanced Raman Scattering

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Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS), as a combination of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) makes a huge progress in high sensitive optical and spectral analysis field by plasmon and plasmonic gradient enhancement. We introduce the mechanisms and setup of TERS with several experimental cases. Among them, high-vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (HV-TERS) is introduced in detail by describing the plasmon-driven reactions.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11374353 and 91436102), Municipal Science and Technology Project (No. Z17111000220000), and National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA02008000).

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  1. School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Changzhong Gao

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Weihua Lin, Jiangcai Wang & Rongming Wang

  3. Department of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Jingang Wang

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Gao, C., Lin, W., Wang, J. et al. Principle and Application of Tip-enhanced Raman Scattering. Plasmonics 13, 1343–1358 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-017-0638-6

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