title: Evaluation of electromagnetic enhancement of surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering using plasmonic properties of binary active sites in single Ag nanoaggregates.
abstract: We found a binary active site of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS) in single Ag nanoaggregates by single particle spectroscopy. The intensity fluctuation of SEHRS was canceled by dividing SEHRS intensity by SERS intensity on the basis of the binary active site analysis. Thanks to the identification of the plasmons common to both SERS and SEHRS we revealed that an enormous enhancement in SEHRS is ascribed to the electromagnetic (EM) enhancement entirely coupled with longitudinal plasmon modes excluding other kinds of enhancement factors. Our results indicate that EM enhancement factors of metal nanostructures are estimated from spectral information on the longitudinal plasmon resonance band obtained by the scattering or absorption spectra of the nanostructures.
authors.affiliation: Nano-Bioanalysis Team, Health Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395, Japan.
authors.forename: Tamitake
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Vasudevanpillai
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Biju
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
mesh_terms: D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D012834:Silver