Tip-and plasmon-enhanced infrared nanoscopy for ultrasensitive molecular characterizations
arXiv:2301.11171 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034020
Abstract
We propose a novel method for ultra-sensitive infrared (IR) vibrational spectroscopy of molecules with nanoscale footprints by combining the tip enhancement of the scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM) and the plasmon enhancement of the breathing-mode (BM) plasmon resonances of graphene nanodisks (GNDs). To demonstrate that, we developed a quantitative model that is capable of computing accurately the s-SNOM signals of nanoscale samples. With our modeling, we show that the s-SNOM tip can effectively excite gate-tunable BM plasmonic resonances in GNDs with strong field enhancement and sensitive dependence on the size of GND. Moreover, we demonstrate that the intense electric field of tip-excited plasmonic BMs can strongly enhance the IR vibrational modes of molecules. As a result, IR vibrational signatures of individual molecular particles with sizes down to 1-2 nm can be readily observable by s-SNOM. Our study sheds light on future ultra-sensitive IR biosensing that takes advantage of both the tip and plasmon enhancement.
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