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Quantum State Absorptions Coupled To Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Could Result In A General Explanation of TERS
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Tip enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) amplifies the intensity of vibrational Raman scattering by employing the tip of a probe interacting, in ultra close proximity, with a surface. Although a general understanding of the TERS process is still to be fully elucidated, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) feedback is often applied with success in TERS to keep a noble metal probe in intimate proximity with a noble metal substrate. Since such STM TERS is a common modality, the possible implications of plasmonic fields that may be induced by the tunneling process are investigated and reported. In addition, TERS of a 2D resonant molecular system, a MoS2 bilayer crystal and a 2D non-resonant, lipid molecular bilayer is compared. Data with multiple excitation wavelengths and surfaces for the resonant system in the near- (TERS) and far-field regimes are reported. An interpretation based on weak coupling interactions within the framework of conventional resonance Raman scattering can explain the observed TERS enhancements. The non-resonant molecular lipid system, on the other hand, requires strong coupling for a full understanding of the reported observations.<br />Comment: 23 pages
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1608.04134
- Document Type :
- Working Paper