Surface-enhanced Raman scattering with Ag nanoparticles optically trapped by a photonic crystal cavity.

Lin, Shiyun; Zhu, Wenqi; Jin, Yuhang; Crozier, Kenneth B · Nano Lett · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrate a reusable and reconfigurable surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platform by optically trapping Ag nanoparticles with a photonic crystal cavity integrated with a microfluidic chip. High-performance SERS is performed in a very reproducible manner, owing to the fact that Ag aggregates are produced by optical trapping in a controllable process that is monitored in real-time by the cavity resonance shift that occurs with the trapping of each additional nanoparticle.