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- Semiconductor-based substrates currently have weak Raman enhancement, limiting their use in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).
- A new two-dimensional semimetal material, molybdenum carbide (MoC), was created using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and shows low detection limits for certain molecules.
- The study reveals that the SERS enhancement from MoC is due to chemical mechanisms rather than electromagnetic effects and suggests doping strategies to improve its sensitivity further.
Article Abstract
The relatively weak Raman enhanced factors of semiconductor-based substrate limit its further application in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Here, a kind of two-dimensional (2D) semimetal material, molybdenum carbide (MoC) film, is prepared via a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, and the origin of SERS is investigated for the first time. The detection limits of the prepared MoC films for crystal violet (CV) and rhodamine 6G (R6G) molecules are low at 10 M and 10 M, respectively. Our detailed theoretical analysis, based on density functional theory and the finite element method, demonstrates that the enhancement of the 2D MoC film is indeed CM in nature rather than the EM effects. Besides, the basic doping strategies are proposed to further optimize the SERS sensitivity of MoC for Fermi level regulation. We believe this work will provide a helpful guide for developing a highly sensitive semimetal SERS substrate.
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