title: Tailoring plasmonic substrates for surface enhanced spectroscopies.
abstract: Our understanding of how the geometry of metallic nanostructures controls the properties of their surface plasmons, based on plasmon hybridization, is useful for developing high-performance substrates for surface enhanced spectroscopies. In this tutorial review, we outline the design of metallic nanostructures tailored specifically for providing electromagnetic enhancements for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The concepts developed for nanoshell-based substrates can be generalized to other nanoparticle geometries and scaled to other spectroscopies, such as surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRA).
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Surbhi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lal
authors.forename: Nathaniel K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Grady
authors.forename: Janardan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kundu
authors.forename: Carly S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: J Britt
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lassiter
authors.forename: Naomi J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Halas
mesh_terms: D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D012834:Silver