Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2013,4, 834–842, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.94
near-field of silvernanoaggregates. The experiments reveal enhancement factors of local fields in the hottest hot spots of the near-field and their dependence on the photon energy. Also, the number of the hottest spots and their approximate geometrical size are found. Near-field amplitudes in the
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Keywords: near-field; plasmonics; silvernanoaggregates; single molecule; surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS); Introduction
The resonance frequencies of collective oscillations of the electrons in the conduction band in metal nanostructures, which are called surface plasmons, fall in the optical
imaging of SERS on silvernanoaggregates has directly confirmed nanoparticle junctions to be responsible for single molecule SERS [11].
Computations show dramatic variations in near-field intensities within a few nanometers. Even sophisticated optical experiments cannot reveal these dramatic spatial
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Figure 1:
Electron micrographs of typical silver nanoaggregates that were used in this study and the extincti...