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Surface enhanced Raman scattering is studied in nanostructures with CdS quantum dots formed using the Langmuir-Blodgett technology. Features due to quantum dot longitudinal optical phonons are observed in the Raman spectra of both free CdS quantum dots and such dots distributed in an organic matrix. The surface enhanced Raman scattering by nanostructures with CdS quantum dots covered by an Ag cluster film is observed experimentally. Applying Ag clusters onto the nanostructure surfaces results in a sharp (40-fold) increase in the intensity of Raman scattering by optical phonons in the quantum dots. It is shown that the dependence of surface enhanced Raman scattering on the excitation energy is resonant with a maximum at the energy corresponding to the maximum absorption coefficient of Ag clusters.
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Original Russian Text © A.G. Milekhin, L.L. Sveshnikova, T.A. Duda, N.V. Surovtsev, S.V. Adichtchev, D.R.T. Zahn, 2008, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 88, No. 12, pp. 918–921.
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Milekhin, A.G., Sveshnikova, L.L., Duda, T.A. et al. Surface enhanced Raman scattering by CdS quantum dots. Jetp Lett. 88, 799–801 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364008240053
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