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Strongly coupled Raman scattering enhancement revealed by scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy

Published:2023-03-30 Issue:10 Volume:12 Page:1857-1864
ISSN:2192-8614
Container-title:Nanophotonics
language:en
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Author:

Qin Kang¹^ORCID,Liu Kai²,Peng Sheng²,Zuo Zongyan³,He Xiao²,Ding Jianping²,Lu Yanqing¹,Zhu Yongyuan²,Zhang Xuejin¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Nanjing University , No. 22, Hankou Road, 210093 Nanjing , P.R. China

2. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, School of Physics , Nanjing University , No. 22, Hankou Road, 210093 Nanjing , P.R. China

3. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering , Nanjing University , No. 22, Hankou Road, 210093 Nanjing , P.R. China

Abstract

Abstract Recent advances in near-field technology with an ultrahigh spatial resolution breaking optical diffraction limit, make it possible to further identify surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement theories, and to monitor the SERS substrates. Here we verify the electromagnetic enhancement mechanism for SERS with a close-up view, using scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy. The array of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) subwavelength structures is studied, in which the field enhancement comes from the strong coupling between gap plasmon polariton and surface plasmon polariton modes. The near-field optical measurements reveal that SERS enhancement factor (EF) varies from one MIM subwavelength unit to another in a finite array. Besides the enhancement of isolated unit, the loss exchange phenomenon in strong coupling with a large Rabi splitting can give rise to an additional enhancement of more than 2 orders of magnitude in periodic arrays and close to 3 orders of magnitude in finite arrays. The SERS EF of the array composed of only 5 units is demonstrated to yield the best SERS performance. Our near-field optical measurements show evidence that finite-size structures embodied with strong coupling effect are a key way to develop practical high-performance SERS substrates.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Major Project

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Biotechnology

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0016/pdf

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