Strong Raman signals have been observed in various molecules attached to rough metal film surfaces or nano silver/gold particles. This phenomenon is denoted as surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Recent experiments have shown that the effective cross sections of Raman scattering can reach the same level that of fluorescence of good laser dyes, making SERS a promising single-molecular detection tool. The commonly used substrates for SERS consist of colloidal Ag/Au particle aggregates, where SERS active sites, called “hot spots”, are only found by chance and not controllable. The poor repeatability and controllability of these SERS substrates have prevented SERS from viable industrial applications, therefore it is imperative to design and fabricate optimized "hot spots" with desired plasmon resonance frequency in a controllable fashion. In this paper, we present a new class of composite nano particles, which is consisted of stacked alternative metal/dielectric layers, called nanoburger. We study optical properties of these nanoburger particles by using discrete dipole approximation method. The numerical results show that nanoburger particles possess many advantages over single layered particles, including high brightness or scattering intensity, high local field enhancements, and more freedom of tuning plasmon resonance wavelength. Another important merit of the nanoburger particles is that they can be fabricated with traditional micro/nano lithography techniques, and thus are integrable with techniques such as lab-in-a-chip.
Nano gold particles interact strongly with visible light to excite the collaborative oscillation of conductive electrons within nano particles resulting in a surface plasmon resonance which makes them useful for various applications including bio-labeling. In this paper, we study the effect of particle sizes with particle plasmon resonant wavelength and the coupling between pair of elliptical metallic disks and ellipsoid particles by simulations and experiments. The red-shift resonant peak wavelength of coupled particles to that of single particle is due to particle plasmons near-field coupling. The shift decays is approximately exponentially with increasing particle spacing, and reaches zero when the gap between the two particles exceeds about 2.5 times the particle short axis length. It is also found that the exponential decay of peak shift with particle gap is size independent but shape dependent.
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