Plasmonic Properties of Vertically Aligned Nanowire Arrays

Abstract

Nanowires (NWs)/Ag sheath composites were produced to investigate plasmonic coupling between vertically aligned NWs for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applications. In this investigation, two types of vertical NW arrays were studied; those of ZnO NWs grown on nanosphere lithography patterned sapphire substrate via vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism and Si NW arrays produced by wet chemical etching. Both types of vertical NW arrays were coated with a thin layer of silver by electroless silver plating for SERS enhancement studies. The experimental results show extremely strong SERS signals due to plasmonic coupling between the NWs, which was verified by COMSOL electric field simulations. We also compared the SERS enhancement intensity of aligned and random ZnO NWs, indicating that the aligned NWs show much stronger and repeatable SERS signal than those grown in nonaligned geometries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA595707

Entities

People

  • Hua Qi
  • O. J. Glembocki
  • Sharka M. Prokes

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemical Etching
  • Electric Fields
  • Electroless Plating
  • Lithography
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Metallic Nanoparticles
  • Nanomaterials
  • Nanoparticles
  • Nanostructures
  • Nanowires
  • Particles
  • Raman Scattering
  • Raman Spectroscopy
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology