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Using biocompatible materials as substrate coating for electric field enhancement in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Fatemeh Sadat Khademi·Maryam Bahreini
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In this article, tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is investigated as a precise method for analysis of biological samples. Using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation, it has been tried to design the required structures for analysis of these samples. At first, by comparing different TERS structures and considering the material, dimensions and other parameters in the simulation, the ideal structure is introduced from a physical point of view and considering the electric field enhancement. In the following, taking into possibility of the effect of environmental and chemical reactions during testing on biological samples, biocompatible materials are used as substrate coating in the simulation, and the effect of using these materials are investigated in comparison with the previous conditions. After performing the simulations, we concluded that Au, Cu and Ag have the highest electric field enhancement, respectively, and the presence of Au next to Cu, also Au and Cu next to Ag, leads to the enhancement of the electric field in them. In the following, we found that the material and thickness of the layer under the coating in the substrate and tip have a great effect on the enhancement. finally, using five biocompatible materials as a coating in the case of using the Au tip and substrate, which creates the most electric field enhancement, we saw that the use of biocompatible materials greatly reduces the enhancement and the use of these five materials does not differ much from each other. Anyway, the use of a 1 nm layer of biocompatible coating creates a much more favorable effect on enhancement than upper thicknesses.

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Fatemeh Sadat Khademi, Maryam Bahreini. 2024-02-20. Using biocompatible materials as substrate coating for electric field enhancement in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12836

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