A novel surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrate based on a large area of MoS2 and Ag nanoparticles hybrid system

Few layers MoS2 were directly synthesized on Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) by thermal decomposion method to fabricate a MoS2/AgNPs hybrid system for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The MoS2/AgNPs hybrid system shows high performance in terms of sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio, reproducibility and stability. The minimum detected concentration from MoS2/AgNPs hybrid system for R6 G can reach 10−9 M, which is one order of magnitude lower than that from AgNPs system. The hybrid system shows the reasonable linear response between the Raman intensity and concentration that R2 is reached to 0.988. The maximum deviations of SERS intensities from 20 positions of the SERS substrate are less than 13%. Besides, the hybrid system has a good stability, the Raman intensity only drop by 20% in a month. This work can provide a basis for the fabrication of novel SERS substrates.