Issue 34, 2009

Investigation of particle shape and size effects in SERS using T-matrix calculations

Abstract

The influence of particle size and shape effects on average and punctual surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factors (EFs) is investigated using exact T-matrix electrodynamic calculations of silver and gold spheroids over a large parameter space. This study extends the conventional treatment of these effects within the frameworks of the electrostatics approximation, its generalizations, or Mie theory for spheres. It confirms the qualitative features of these approaches, but provides in addition quantitative predictions of SERS EFs in the case of large non-spherical particles, where the lightning-rod effect (shape effect) and radiation damping (size effect) operate simultaneously. Finally, the localization effect at large SERS EF (hot-spots) is shown to be dictated only by shape, not size, in the case of metallic spheroids at the dipolar localized surface plasmon resonance.

Graphical abstract: Investigation of particle shape and size effects in SERS using T-matrix calculations

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Mar 2009
Accepted
06 May 2009
First published
09 Jun 2009

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009,11, 7398-7405

Investigation of particle shape and size effects in SERS using T-matrix calculations

R. Boyack and E. C. Le Ru, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 7398 DOI: 10.1039/B905645A

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