A molecular spectroscopic view of surface plasmon enhanced resonance Raman scattering.
The enhancement of resonance Raman scattering by coupling to the plasmon resonance of a metal nanoparticle is developed by treating the molecule-metal interaction as transition dipole coupling between the molecular electronic transition and the much stronger optical transition of the nanoparticle. A density matrix treatment accounts for coupling of both transitions to the electromagnetic field, near-resonant energy transfer between the molecule-excited and nanoparticle-excited states, and dephasing processes. This fully quantum mechanical approach reproduces the interference effects observed in extinction spectra of J-aggregated dyes adsorbed to metal nanoparticles and makes testable predictions for surface-enhanced resonance Raman excitation profiles.
School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, California 95344, USA. amkelley@ucmerced.edu
Anne Myers
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