Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with silver-coated optical fiber probe in reflection mode for investigating multiwall carbon nanotubes
Applied Optics, Vol. 49, Issue 10, pp. 1845-1848 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.49.001845
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Abstract
We developed a tip-enhanced Raman spectrometer (TERS) with reflection mode. The instrument, with a scanning shear-force microscope (ShFM) and a side-illumination Raman spectroscope, can overcome the diffraction limit and has high sensitivity. A chemical method to fabricate optical fiber probes with Ag coating is proposed. The local electromagnetic responses of the silver-coated optical fiber probe are numerically analyzed by the finite-difference time-domain method, and the excitation wavelength is optimized to resonate with the localized surface plasmons (LSP) of the probe tip. The instrument is applied to investigate a single multiwall carbon nanotube. The experiment results indicate that our TERS instrument has a spatial resolution better than
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OCIS Codes
(120.6200) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Spectrometers and spectroscopic instrumentation
(300.6450) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, Raman
(180.4243) Microscopy : Near-field microscopy
ToC Category:
Spectroscopy
History
Original Manuscript: December 22, 2009
Revised Manuscript: March 1, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: March 5, 2010
Published: March 25, 2010
Citation
Rui Wang, Jia Wang, Fenghuan Hao, Mingqian Zhang, and Qian Tian, "Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with silver-coated optical fiber probe in reflection mode for investigating multiwall carbon nanotubes," Appl. Opt. 49, 1845-1848 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-10-1845
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