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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2022
Edwin Thomas Carlen, Almont, MI (US);
Edwin Thomas Carlen, Almont, MI (US);
Abstract
A Raman multi-gas detection system including an enhancement unit coupled between a light source and a detector. The enhancement unit includes a nanongrid having a plurality of nanogaps. A gas is coupled to the enhancement unit and is configured to flow through the plurality of nanogaps of the nanogrid. The nanogrid comprises one or more plasmon-active materials. The light source is configured to generate plasmon-enhanced electric fields in the plurality of nanogaps of the nanogrid to induce enhanced Raman scattering of the constituent molecules in the gas within the plurality of nanogaps such that a plurality of different constituent molecules in the gas can be detected. In one embodiment, a molecule in the gas is configured to scatter the light from the light source at a rate more than 1000 times greater than in the free space in the enhancement unit.