Discerning the Origins of the Amplitude Fluctuations in Dynamic Raman Nanospectroscopy
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- 作者：J茅r茅mie Margueritat ; Alexandre Bouhelier ; Laurent Markey ; G茅rard Colas des Francs ; Alain Dereux ; St茅phanie Lau-Truong ; Johan Grand ; Georges L茅vi ; Nordin F茅lidj ; Jean Aubard ; Eric Finot
- 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：December 27, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：116
- 期：51
- 页码：26919-26923
- 全文大小：391K
- 年卷期：v.116,no.51(December 27, 2012)
- ISSN：1932-7455
文摘
We introduce a novel experimental and analytical method for discerning rare surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) events observable at the nanoscale. We show that the kinetics of the Raman activity recorded on an isolated nanostructure is punctuated by intense and rare events of large amplitude and spectral variations. The fluctuations of thousands of SERS spectra were analyzed statistically in terms of power density functions, and the occurrence of the rare events was quantified by a wavenumber statistics. Our analysis enables one to extract valuable and unique spectroscopic signature of Raman variations usually hidden in time-average or space-average measurements. We illustrate our approach using molecular surface dynamics of gold adatoms on nanoparticles.