Programmable and reversible plasmon mode engineering.

Autor: Ankun Yang, Hryn, Alexander J., Won-Kyu Lee, Jingtian Hu, Odom, Teri W., Bourgeois, Marc R., Schatz, George C.
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 12/13/2016, Vol. 113 Issue 50, p14201-14206, 6p, 4 Graphs
Abstrakt: Plasmonic nanostructures with enhanced localized optical fields as well as narrow linewidths have driven advances in numerous applications. However, the active engineering of ultranarrow resonances across the visible regime—and within a single system—has not yet been demonstrated. This paper describes how aluminum nanoparticle arrays embedded in an elastomeric slab may exhibit high-quality resonances with linewidths as narrow as 3 nm at wavelengths not accessible by conventional plasmonic materials. We exploited stretching to improve and tune simultaneously the optical response of as-fabricated nanoparticle arrays by shifting the diffraction mode relative to single-particle dipolar or quadrupolar resonances. This dynamic modulation of particle–particle spacing enabled either dipolar or quadrupolar lattice modes to be selectively accessed and individually optimized. Programmable plasmon modes offer a robust way to achieve real-time tunable materials for plasmon-enhanced molecular sensing and plasmonic nanolasers and opens new possibilities for integrating with flexible electronics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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