Distance dependence of surface enhanced Raman scattering probed by alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Vol. 1 (9) , 2351-2353
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a901034c
Abstract
A distance dependence study of the surface enhanced Raman effect has been performed using alkanethiol CH3(CH2)nSH self-assembled monolayers on top of rough silver surfaces. We found a decrease of the enhancement signal of the CH3 heads by a factor of 2, increasing the CH3–surface distance from 0.8 to 2.5 nm (n=5–17) and a distance function compatible with the known Gersten and Nitzan theory on the electromagnetic enhancement. Parameters obtained by an experimental data fit agree with previous observations on silver surface morphology.Keywords
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