Plasmonics and single‐molecule detection in evaporated silver‐island films
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Abstract
Abstract The plasmonic origin of surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) leads to the concept of hotspots and plasmon coupling that can be realized in the interstitial regions, or on specially engineered, silver and gold nanostructures. It is also possible to achieve spatial locations of high local field or hotspots on silver‐island films (SIF) allowing single‐molecule detection (SMD). When a single monomolecular layer coating the SIFs contains dye molecules dispersed in it, single‐molecule impurities, (with an average of one hundred dye molecules in 1 µm 2 , which is the field of view of the micro‐Raman system), SMD is observed as a rare statistical event. Here, the SMD results for silver‐island films are presented, with the same nominal mass thickness, but differing in the localized surface plasmon resonance that is a function of the temperature of substrate during deposition. A blue‐shifted plasmon can be seen as a decrease in plasmon coupling for deposition at higher temperature. A simple two‐particle model for localized plasmon resonance coupling calculations, including the shape and substrate effects seems to explain the trend of observations.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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