Surface plasmon resonance induced charge transfer effect on the Ag-ZnSe-PATP system

Abstract

This work demonstrated the effect of charge transfer (CT) induced by metal surface plasmon resonance (SPR) on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). We designed an Ag-ZnSe nanostructure and introduced p-aminothiophenol (PATP) molecules to form an Ag-ZnSe-PATP system. The proposed method compensates for the CT difficulty in wide-band-gap semiconductors, which was initiated by the SPR of Ag. The Raman intensity is enhanced differently depending on the action of excitation light of different wavelengths. The concept of the CT degree was introduced to analyze this intriguing phenomenon. The system constructed in this work combines the electromagnetic enhancement mechanism and the chemical enhancement mechanism, which helps further understand the SERS mechanism and provides important references for SERS research on wide-band-gap semiconductors.