Frontiers of Plasmon Enhanced Spectroscopy

More than four decades have passed since surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) was discovered. In today's world SERS has been established as a plasmon-based spectroscopy with ultra-high sensitivity and versatility at the forefront of the developments in plasmonics. SERS has been developing with the advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The "SERS world" has grown up markedly for the last 20 years or so, and recently the wider concept of, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy was born. Plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy contains not only SERS but also tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS), surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA), surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF), and more. Through these novel spectroscopies various amazing properties of plasmons have become known, providing new exciting research fields. One of the main purposes of the book is to convey the enthusiastic discussion on plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy at the symposium to the scientific community.

This book reports leading-edge advances in the theory of plasmonic enhancement and application of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy to biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, and medicine. Many books have been published about SERS, but this may be the first time that a book on a wide area of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy has ever been published. The book consists of two volumes; the first volume contains the introductory review by George Schatz followed by eight chapters, which are mainly concerned with SERS.

Yukihiro Ozaki obtained his Ph.D. (1978) in chemistry from Osaka University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kwansei Gakuin University in Sanda, Japan. He has been active in the research of a variety of molecular spectroscopy, covering IR, Raman, NIR, and far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. Prof. Ozaki has received many awards including the 1998 Tomas Hirschfeld Award, the 2002 Spectroscopical Society of Japan Award, the 2005 Science and Technology Award of Japanese Government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), the Gerald Birth Award, and the Bomen-Michelson Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Chemical Society of Japan, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

George C. Schatz is Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clarkson University and a Ph.D at Caltech. He was a postdoc at MIT and has been at Northwestern since 1976. Schatz has published three books and more than 800 papers. Schatz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, and he has been Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physical Chemistry since 2005. Recent awards include the Debye and Langmuir Awards of the ACS, the S F Boys-A Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Hirschfelder Award of the University of Wisconsin. He is a Fellow of the APS, RSC, ACS, and the AAAS.

Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and Head of Department for Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, having being appointed there as a lecturer in 2002 and then as a Chair in 2004. He is currently Chair of the Editorial Board of Analyst and President elect of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the RSC's SAC Silver Medal (2004), the RSC's Corday Morgan Prize (2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010), the Craver Award from the Coblentz Society (2012), and the Fellows Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2012). He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008.He completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (1996), and his interests are in developing new diagnostic assays based on nanoparticles and spectroscopy with target molecules including DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecule biomarkers.

Tamitake Itoh is currently a Senior Researcher of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He completed his Ph.D. (2002) at Osaka University under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Masuhara and Prof. Tsuyoshi Asahi. Through postdoctoral research positions from 2002 to 2005, he worked at Kwansei Gakuin University. In April of 2005 he became a Researcher in AIST, and in April of 2010 he was promoted to Senior Researcher. In 2012, as an additional position he was appointed as visiting Associate Professor at Nagoya University.