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View SchemaEnhancement factor distribution around a single SERS Hot-spot and its relation to Single Molecule detection
| Authors | E. C. Le Ru, P. G. Etchegoin, M. Meyer |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0608139 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608139 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2390694 |
Abstract
We provide the theoretical framework to understand the phenomenology and statistics of single-molecule (SM) signals arising in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) under the presence of so-called electromagnetic hot-spots (HS's). We show that most characteristics of the SM-SERS phenomenon can be tracked down to the presence of tail-like (power law) distribution of enhancements and we propose a specific model for it. We analyze, in the light of this, the phenomenology of SM-SERS and show how the different experimental manifestations of the effect reported in the literature can be analyzed and understood under a unified ``universal'' framework with a minimum set of parameters.
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