Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Near-Fields Acting on a Few Molecules
- 5 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Vol. 63 (1), 379-399
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143807
Abstract
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is a very powerful variant of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). In a sense, TERS overcomes most of the drawbacks of SERS but keeps its advantages, such as its high sensitivity. TERS offers the additional advantages of high spatial resolution, much beyond the Abbe limit, and the possibility to correlate TER and other scanning probe microscope images, i.e., to correlate topographic and chemical data. TERS finds application in a number of fields, such as surface science, material science, and biology. Single-molecule TERS has been observed even for TERS enhancements of “only” 106–107. In this review, TERS enhancements are discussed in some detail, including a condensed overview of measured contrasts and estimated total enhancements. Finally, recent developments for TERS under ultrahigh vacuum conditions are presented, including TERS on a C60 island with a diameter of a few tens of nanometers, deposited on a smooth Au(111) surface.Keywords
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