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Enhanced Raman spectra of black dye N719 on GaN nanowires

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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 457, Issue -, Pages 809-814

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.06.276

Keywords

SERS; Charge transfer; Plasmon; Resonance; Enhancement factor

Funding

  1. NCN [2015/19/B/ST8/02004]
  2. National Science Foundation [CHE-1402750]
  3. NSF [HRD-1547830]

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Gallium Nitride (GaN) substrates have recently been proposed as high performance substrates for surface enhanced Raman (SEAS) measurements. The GaN substrate acted as a template for nano-structuration of the surface, and a noble metal (e.g. silver or gold) supported the electrical fields and surface plasmon resonances deemed necessary for SEAS. However, we demonstrate here that charge transfer conditions can be approached with a selected molecule on pure GaN substrates, and that the surface plasmon resonances of the noble metals are not a prerequisite anymore to obtain SEAS conditions. We use a black dye (N719) adsorbed on GaN bundles of nano-wires for which the charge transfer resonances can contribute enhancement factors up to 10(4). The charge transfer (CT) transition from the GaN substrate valence band (-6.75 eV) to the molecular LUMO (-4.26 eV) is in resonance with the energy of the laser excitation at 488 nm (2.54 eV), and with the molecular resonance within the N719 molecule (omega(Mol) = 2.47 eV).

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