Sol–gel SiO2 films containing colloidal copper particles for surface-enhanced raman scattering of graphite
✍ Scribed by F. J. García-Rodríguez; J. González-Hernández; F. Pérez-Robles; Y. V. Vorobiev; A. Manzano-Ramírez; S. Jiménez-Sandoval; B. S. Chao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0377-0486
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✦ Synopsis
Coatings on glass substrates with a weight composition of 60 CuO : 40 were prepared using the sol-gel SiO 2 method. To accomplish this, copper was incorporated in the starting solution prior to the Ðlm formation. Then thermal treatments in air on the freshly made coatings produced samples with the above-mentioned composition. Thermal annealings of the oxidized coatings under a atmosphere produce, Ðrst, the reduction of the CO-CO 2 copper oxide particles to form metallic copper particles and, second, the deposition of ultrathin graphite layers on the copper particles located near the surface of the coating. The strong graphite Raman signal observed in these samples is interpreted as being due to the surface enhancement of the graphite lines produced by the metallic copper particles. A simple approach is used to calculate the enhancement in the Raman lines and this agrees well with the enhancement measured experimentally.