Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5357065 | Applied Surface Science | 2014 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
This work reports a simple yet highly efficient method to fabricate transparent substrates for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) application. Our technique is based on a fume etching process for commercial ITO-glass (ITO film on glass substrate) with atmospheric fume of hydrochloric acid (HCl). Surface analyses suggested that the spontaneously evaporated HCl molecules chemically reacted with ITO and formed island-like nanostructures. The topography of the ITO surface can be tuned to optimize the SERS efficiency by adjusting the etching parameters. On-line SERS spectra of the R6G solution concentration variation were also obtained to study the adsorption behavior of R6G on ITO surface. This convenient, simple, and low-cost method of making transparent SERS-active substrates potentially opens a way toward rapid, nondestructive and quantitative bioanalysis, particularly in microfluidics.
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Authors
Yimin Yang, Kailing Long, Fan Kong, Jiyang Fan, Teng Qiu,