title: Plasmonic band gap structures for surface-enhanced Raman scattering.
abstract: Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of rhodamine 6G (R6G) adsorbed on biharmonic metallic grating structures was studied. Biharmonic metallic gratings include two different grating components, one acting as a coupler to excite surface plasmon polaritons (SPP), and the other forming a plasmonic band gap for the propagating SPPs. In the vicinity of the band edges, localized surface plasmons are formed. These localized plasmons strongly enhance the scattering efficiency of the Raman signal emitted on the metallic grating surfaces. It was shown that reproducible Raman scattering enhancement factors of over 10(5) can be achieved by fabricating biharmonic SERS templates using soft nano-imprint technique. We have shown that the SERS activities from these templates are tunable as a function of plasmonic resonance conditions. Similar enhancement factors were also measured for directional emission of photoluminescence. At the wavelengths of the plasmonic absorption peak, directional enhancement by a factor of 30 was deduced for photoluminescence measurements.
authors: Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
authors: Askin
authors: A
authors: Kocabas
authors: Gulay
authors: G
authors: Ertas
authors: S S
authors: SS
authors: Senlik
authors: Atilla
authors: A
authors: Aydinli
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012235:Rhodamines / Q000737:chemistry*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D012235:Rhodamines; C026188:rhodamine 6G