We report on chemically prepared silver nanowires (diameters around 100 nm) sustaining surface plasmon modes with wavelengths shortened to about half the value of the exciting light. As we find by scattered light spectroscopy and near-field optical microscopy, the nonradiating character of these modes together with minimized damping due to the well developed wire crystal structure gives rise to large values of surface plasmon propagation length and nanowire end face reflectivity of about 10 microm and 25%, respectively. We demonstrate that these properties allow us to apply the nanowires as efficient surface plasmon Fabry-Perot resonators.
We map the complete plasmonic spectrum of silver nanodisks
by electron
energy loss spectroscopy and show that the mode which couples strongest
to the electron beam has radial symmetry with no net dipole moment.
Therefore, this mode does not couple to light and has escaped from
observation in optical experiments. This radial breathing mode has
the character of an extended two-dimensional surface plasmon with
a wavenumber determined by the circular disk confinement. Its strong
near fields can impact the hybridization in coupled plasmonic nanoparticles
as well as couplings with nearby quantum emitters.
Polymer/copper indium sulfide (CIS) nanocomposite solar cells are prepared via a capper free in situ preparation route using copper and indium xanthates as precursors, which decompose and form CIS nanoparticles in the polymer matrix during a mild thermal treatment. The solar cells generate current in a wide range of the solar spectrum and exhibit efficiencies up to 2.8%.
Dimensionality has a significant impact on the optical properties of solid-state nanostructures. For example, dimensionality-dependent carrier confinement in semiconductors leads to the formation of quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. While semiconductor properties are governed by excitonic effects, the optical response of metal nanostructures is dominated by surface plasmons. Here we find that, in contrast to excitonic systems, the mode dispersions in plasmonic structures of different dimensionality are related by simple scaling rules. Employing electron energy loss spectroscopy, we show that the modes of silver nanodisks can be scaled to the surface and edge modes of extended silver thin films. We thereby introduce a general and intuitive ordering scheme for plasmonic excitations with edge and surface modes as the elementary building blocks.
We demonstrate the imaging capabilities of energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy at high energy resolution in the low energy-loss region, reporting the first direct image of a surface plasmon of an elongated gold nanoparticle at energies around 1 eV. Using complimentary model calculations performed within the boundary element method approach we can assign the observed results to the plasmon eigenmodes of the metallic nanoparticle.
We
morph a silver nanodisk into a nanotriangle by producing a series
of nanoparticles with electron beam lithography. Using electron energy
loss spectroscopy (EELS), we map out the plasmonic eigenmodes and
trace the evolution of edge and film modes during morphing. Our results
suggest that disk modes, characterized by angular order, can serve
as a suitable basis for other nanoparticle geometries and are subject
to resonance energy shifts and splittings, as well as to hybridization
upon morphing. Similar to the linear combination of atomic orbitals
(LCAO) in quantum chemistry, we introduce a linear combination
of plasmonic eigenmodes to describe plasmon modes in different
geometries, hereby extending the successful hybridization model of
plasmonics.
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