K. E. Mochalov, D. O. Solovyeva, A. E. Efimov, D. V. Klinov, V. A. Oleĭnikov, “High-performance, reproducible tip-enhanced Raman scattering probes”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2020, Volume 46, Issue 21,Pages <nobr>36

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High-performance, reproducible tip-enhanced Raman scattering probes

K. E. Mochalov^a, D. O. Solovyeva^ab, A. E. Efimov^cd, D. V. Klinov^e, V. A. Oleĭnikov^ab

^a M. M. Shemyakin and Yu. A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Nuclear Research University)
^c Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs
^d SNOTRA LLC, Moscow, Russia
^e Federal Research And Clinical Center Of Physical-Chemical Medicine Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: The main limitation of the use of tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) is due to the lack of reliable scanning probes. We present a simple procedure to manufacture TERS probes with highly reproducible characteristics that are reliable and provide sufficient enhancement. The procedure is based on the modification of conventional cantilevers of scanning probe microscopes by plasma etching, followed by the formation of a TERS enhancing region at the apex by deposition of colloidal nanoparticles by dielectrophoresis.

Keywords: tip-enhanced Raman microspectroscopy, TERS, scanning probe microscopy, scanning probe microscope (SPM), SPM probes.

Received: 12.05.2020
Revised: 28.07.2020
Accepted: 28.07.2020

DOI: 10.21883/PJTF.2020.21.50195.18374