In this paper, P doping TiO2 were synthesized by using H3PO4 as phosphorus source via a facile sol-hydrothermal process, and silver nanoparticles were synthesized by Lee and Meisel method. We choose 4-Mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) as the probe molecule to build TiO2/MBA/Ag sandwich structures as active substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The samples were characterized for morphology, structure, optical property and surface chemical composition by Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), UV–visible diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) and Raman spectroscopy. It shows that the crystal size of TiO2 was about 6-12 nm and P doping could not influence the phase of the crystal. XPS revealed that P5+ replace Ti4+ and doping into the crystal lattice by forming O-P-O. The Raman result shows that P doped TiO2 has a higher intensity of Raman signals in P-TiO2/MBA/Ag sandwich structures than that in pure TiO2/MBA/Ag, the 1.77% P-TiO2 own the strongest Raman signals than any other samples, this is due to phosphorus doping which narrow the energy band gap of TiO2 and abundant the surface states, these were profitable for TiO2 to MBA molecule charge transfer process.
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Phosphorus doping to improve the Surface-enhanced Raman scattering property of TiO2 in TiO2/MBA/Ag sandwich structure. Chinese Journal of Light Scattering. 2017, 29(3): 210-215 https://doi.org/10.13883/j.issn1004-5929.201703005