17 research outputs found
Spectroscopy and Imaging of Plasmonic Modes Over a Single Decahedron Gold Nanoparticle: A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study
Employing cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy and imaging
in
a field emission gun (FEG) scanning electron microscope (SEM), we
study localized surface plasmon (LSP) modes on individual tilted gold
nanodecahedron sitting on a silicon substrate. We experimentally resolve
three distinct LSP modes in the far-field radiation acquired via CL.
The experimental spectra and intensity maps of plasmon modes are in
excellent agreement with the spectra and 2D-CL image obtained from
finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. Detail analysis
reveals the signature of a quadrupolar surface plasmon mode in addition
to the two dipolar modes along azimuthal and polar direction of the
decahedron. The experimental method and the theoretical formalism
presented here provide useful insight into the plasmonic behavior
of complex shaped metal nanoparticle supported by a high index substrate
Probing Higher Order Surface Plasmon Modes on Individual Truncated Tetrahedral Gold Nanoparticle Using Cathodoluminescence Imaging and Spectroscopy Combined with FDTD Simulations
We report the spatial maps of the localized surface plasmon
resonances
associated photon emission in a truncated tetrahedral gold nanoparticle
on a silicon substrate. Site-specific cathodoluminescence spectroscopy
and imaging in a scanning electron microscope shows stronger photon
emission in the visible range near the tips of the particle in contact
with the substrate compared to the edges of the particle. Strong local
field variations on a length scale as short as 19 nm are resolved.
We also perform FDTD simulations of both the spectra and, for the
first time, the full cathodoluminescence images. Excellent agreement
is obtained with the experimental results, and the detailed information
available from the simulated results makes it possible to identify
the signature of out-of-plane higher order modes in the truncated
tetrahedral gold particle
Mode Mixing and Substrate Induced Effect on the Plasmonic Properties of an Isolated Decahedral Gold Nanoparticle
We report new results on the localized
surface plasmon (LSP) assisted
optical effects of a single noble metal nanoparticle (MNP) in nm level
spectral and spatial domain which is related to the phase retardation
of electromagnetic signal with larger particle size. Site selective
electron beam excitation in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) show
multiple resonance peaks in the cathodoluminescence (CL) spectra of
an isolated gold decahedron of side edge length 230 nm sitting on
a silicon (Si) substrate. Apart from a substrate induced LSP mode
in the near-infrared (750 nm) region, finite-difference time-domain
(FDTD) numerical analysis also identifies two prominent LSP modes
in the visible region. While the shorter wavelength (560 nm) mode
has a mixture of in-plane quadrupolar and out-of-plane quadrupolar
charge distribution pattern, the longer wavelength (655 nm) mode has
the dipolar charge pattern in both the direction. We also analyze
numerically to show the critical size of the side edge length of the
decahedron particle where mode mixing is initiated
Annealing Induced Morphology of Silver Nanoparticles on Pyramidal Silicon Surface and Their Application to Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
This
paper reports on a simple and cost-effective process of developing
a stable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate based
on silver (Ag) nanoparticles deposited on silicon (Si) surface. Durability
is an important issue for preparing SERS active substrate as silver
nanostructures are prone to rapid surface oxidation when exposed to
ambient conditions, which may result in the loss of the enhancement
capabilities in a short period of time. Here, we employ the galvanic
displacement method to produce Ag nanoparticles on Si(100) substrate
prepatterned with arrays of micropyramids by chemical etching, and
subsequently, separate pieces of such substrates were annealed in
oxygen and nitrogen environments at 550 °C. Interestingly, while
nitrogen-annealed Si substrates were featured by spherical-shaped
Ag particles, the oxygen annealed Si substrates were dominated by
the formation of triangular shape particles attached with the spherical
one. Remarkably, the oxygen-annealed substrate thus produced shows
very high SERS enhancement compared to the either unannealed or nitrogen
annealed substrate. The hitherto unobserved coexistence of triangular
morphology with the spherical one and the gap between the two (source
of efficient hot-spots) are the origin of enhanced SERS activity for
the oxygen-annealed Ag particle-covered Si substrate as probed by
the combined finite-difference time domain (FDTD) simulation and cathodoluminesensce
(CL) experiment. As the substrate has already been annealed in an
oxygen environment, further probability of oxidation is reduced in
the present synthesis protocol that paves the way for making a novel
long-lived thermally stable SERS substrate
Mode Mixing and Substrate Induced Effect on the Plasmonic Properties of an Isolated Decahedral Gold Nanoparticle
Efficient Excitation of Higher Order Modes in the Plasmonic Response of Individual Concave Gold Nanocubes
Recently,
concave nanocube (CNC) shaped metal nanoparticles (MNPs)
with high index facets have drawn special attention due to their high
chemical activity and large electromagnetic (EM) field enhancements,
making them good candidates for multifunctional platforms. However,
most of the previously published works focused on the plasmonic properties
of silver simple nanocubes of smaller dimension, i.e., within the
quasi-static limit, hardly supporting efficient excitation of high-order
plasmonic modes. Site-selective electron beam excitation of individual
Au CNC particles gives rise to simultaneous excitation of edge and
corner localized surface plasmon (LSP) modes. We show that spatial
variation of the radiative modes is strongly localized at the corners
and extended along the edges of the top surface of the CNCs. Extensive
finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical analysis reveals that
the substrate-induced plasmon hybridization leads to the activation
of corner octupolar and corner quadrupolar LSP modes, in agreement
with the cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements. Remarkably, the strength
of the hybridization is shown to depend on the CNC size. Furthermore,
we show that the edge quadrupolar mode becomes prominent with increasing
concaveness, thus opening up a new way of engineering the LSP modes
Effect of Intertip Coupling on the Plasmonic Behavior of Individual Multitipped Gold Nanoflower
We report here, the first experimental
realization on the selective
excitation of two closely lying tips from the same spherical core
of a multitipped gold nanoparticle with flower-like morphology. This
gives strong multipeaked resonance in the near-infrared region of
the far-field emission spectra showing a clear signature of tip to
tip coupling. The cathodoluminescence (CL) technique in a scanning
electron microscope (SEM) combined with finite-difference time-domain
(FDTD) simulation has helped us to identify the coupled plasmon modes
to be originated from the interaction between two closely spaced tips
with a narrow angular separation. Our analysis further estimates a
range of angular separation between the tips that triggers the onset
of the intertip coupling