Photoinduced Kinetics of SERS in Bioinorganic Hybrid Systems. A Case Study: Dopamine−TiO2

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• 作者：Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro ; Pilarisetty Tarakeshwar ; Tijana Rajh ; Vladimiro Mujica
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：November 18, 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：114
• 期：45
• 页码：14642-14645
• 全文大小：129K
• 年卷期：v.114,no.45(November 18, 2010)
• ISSN：1520-5207

文摘

The reported observation of SERS on semiconductors has confirmed the feasibility of distinguishing the charge-transfer mechanism from the electromagnetic one responsible for the enhancement of the signal in metal nanoparticles. Experimental investigation of the well characterized dopamine−TiO₂ system revealed an unexpected dependence on coverage and size. We propose here a theoretical model applicable to SERS on semiconducting substrates that explains this remarkable behavior. The model is based on a competition mechanism arising from the formation of an electron gas in the conduction band of the semiconductor due to the photoexcitation of a charge-transfer complex. Taking into account the two competing effects, a linear increase in the Raman intensity arising from increasing coverage and a quenching effect due to the photon absorption by the electron gas, provides excellent agreement between our model and the experiment for 5 nm nanoparticles. Discrepancies for the case of 2 nm nanoparticles are attributed to quantum confinement, an effect that is investigated elsewhere.