Title

A needle probe to detect surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) within solid specimen

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2017

Abstract

A needle probe has been developed to obtain surface enhanced Raman scattering data from within a solid specimen located remotely from the spectrometer. It produces the high signal strength of a single mode optical fiber but with a negligible fiber induced background. The observed Raman signal strength is comparable to that obtained with a microscope objective of the same numerical aperture in a conventional spectrometer arrangement and many times larger than that of probes using two fibers.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

The Review of scientific instruments

First Page

023107

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