Morphological and SERS Properties of Silver Nanorod Array Films Fabricated by Oblique Thermal Evaporation at Various Substrate Temperatures

Aligned silver nanorod (AgNR) array films were fabricated by oblique thermal evaporation. The substrate temperature during evaporation was varied from 10 to 100 °C using a home-built water cooling system. Deposition angle and substrate temperature were found to be the most important parameters for t...

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Autores principales: Oh, Myoung-Kyu, Shin, Yong-Seok, Lee, Chang-Lyoul, De, Ranjit, Kang, Hoonsoo, Yu, Nan Ei, Kim, Bok Hyeon, Kim, Joon Heon, Yang, Jin-Kyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
Materias:
Nano Express
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-015-0962-8
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Sumario:Aligned silver nanorod (AgNR) array films were fabricated by oblique thermal evaporation. The substrate temperature during evaporation was varied from 10 to 100 °C using a home-built water cooling system. Deposition angle and substrate temperature were found to be the most important parameters for the morphology of fabricated films. Especially, it was found that there exists a critical temperature at ~90 °C for the formation of the AgNR array. The highest enhancement factor of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), observed in the Ag films coated with benzenethiol monolayer, was ~6 × 10(7). Hot spots, excited in narrow gaps between nanorods, were attributed to the huge enhancement factor by our finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation reflecting the real morphology.

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