title: Crystal face dependent chemical effects in surface-enhanced Raman scattering at atomically defined gold facets.
abstract: Among electromagnetic and chemical (CM) contributions to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), the former is becoming controllable according to the recent progress in nanofabrication of plasmonic metal structures. However, it is still difficult to control the latter effect. Here, the degree of each contribution to SERS signals is examined on well-defined single crystalline facets of gold by using optical field localization within sphere-plane type plasmonic cavities. Crystal face dependent SERS studies of aminobenzenthiol adsorbates clearly show the distinction between CM enhancements on different surfaces, suggesting that the CM-activity of "SERS-hotspots" is closely related to interfacial dipoles formed at metal-molecular junctions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan. kikeda@pchem.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Katsuyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Shuto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uosaki
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D008422:Materials Testing; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010316:Particle Size; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D006046:Gold