I have to find whether my doped element reached at doping site or it just intercalated in the layers of my compound,I want to study this with the help of raman spectroscopy.Please let me know how i can study difference between intercalation and doping at lattice site using Raman Spectra.
It depends on what materials, but doping should include a charge transfer which will effect the Raman lines of your dopant and, locally at least, your host
Raman spectroscopy is a good tool to investigate possible doping or intercalation. Intercalated metal implies there is no stacking structure between layer to layer of host material . D and G peaks are sensitive to doping or intercalation which may exhibit a noticeable up or downshift depending on the type of dopant and host as Hugh said. Depending on d-spacing value, I think XRD technique is more useful in differentiation between metal doping and intercalation.
If our material is not graphene, then how can we find this for other samples ?
Doping should induce a charge transfer which will effect the Raman lines of your dopant and, locally at least, your host. Intercalation with no charge transfer will have a lesser effect on both.
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