title: Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on gold nanotrenches and nanoholes.
abstract: Dependent effects on edge-to-edge distance and incidence polarization in surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) were studied in detection of 4-mercaptopyridine (4-MPy) molecules absorbed on gold nanotrenches and nanoholes. The gold nanostructures with controllable size and period were fabricated using electron-beam lithography. Large SERS enhancement in detection of 4-MPy molecules on both nanostructred substrates was observed. The SERS enhancement increased exponentially with decrease of edge-to-edge distance for both the nanotrenches and nanoholes while keeping the sizes of the nanotrenches and nanoholes unchanged. Investigation of polarization dependence showed that the SERS enhancement of nanotrenches was much more sensitive to the incidence polarizations than that of nanoholes.
authors: Advanced Nanofabrication and Imaging Core Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
authors: Weisheng
authors: W
authors: Yue
authors: Yang
authors: Y
authors: Yang
authors: Zhihong
authors: Z
authors: Wang
authors: Longqing
authors: L
authors: Chen
authors: Kim Chong
authors: KC
authors: Wong
authors: Ahad
authors: A
authors: Syed
authors: Long
authors: L
authors: Chen
authors: Xianbin
authors: X
authors: Wang