Direct measurement of the Raman enhancement factor of rhodamine 6G on graphene under resonant excitation

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• 作者：Shibin Deng ; Weigao Xu ; Jinying Wang ; Xi Ling ; Juanxia Wu ; Liming Xie…
• 关键词：graphene ; rhodamine 6G ; Raman enhancement ; polarization ; difference resonance Raman spectroscopy ; optical contrast spectroscopy
• 刊名：Nano Research
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：September 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：7
• 期：9
• 页码：1271-1279
• 全文大小：1,519 KB
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• 作者单位：Shibin Deng (1)
  Weigao Xu (1)
  Jinying Wang (1)
  Xi Ling (2)
  Juanxia Wu (1)
  Liming Xie (3)
  Jing Kong (2)
  Mildred S. Dresselhaus (2) (4)
  Jin Zhang (1)
  
  1. Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
  3. Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China
  4. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
  
• ISSN：1998-0000

文摘

Graphene substrates have recently been found to generate Raman enhancement. Systematic studies using different Raman probes have been implemented, but one of the most commonly used Raman probes, rhodamine 6G (R6G), has yielded controversial results for the enhancement effect on graphene. Indeed, the Raman enhancement factor of R6G induced by graphene has never been measured directly under resonant excitation because of the presence of intense fluorescence backgrounds. In this study, a polarization-difference technique is used to suppress the fluorescence background by subtracting two spectra collected using different excitation laser polarizations. As a result, enhancement factors are obtained ranging between 1.7 and 5.6 for the four Raman modes of R6G at 611, 1,183, 1,361, and 1,647 cm? under resonant excitation by a 514.5 nm laser. By comparing these results with the results obtained under non-resonant excitation (632.8 nm) and pre-resonant excitation (593 nm), the enhancement can be attributed to static chemical enhancement (CHEM) and tuning of the molecular resonance. Density functional theory simulations reveal that the orbital energies and densities for R6G are modified by graphene dots.