Reversible Strong Coupling in Silver Nanoparticle Arrays Using Photochromic Molecules

Baudrion, Anne-Laure; Perron, Antoine; Veltri, Alessandro; Bouhélier, Alexandre; Adam, Pierre‐Michel; Bachelot, Renaud

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“…6c). Thereafter, a molecular plasmonic switch driven by photochemical and thermal stimuli was also demonstrated by Baudrion and co-workers [165]. These authors showed that when ultraviolet radiation was applied to spiropyran (SPy), a photochromic molecule, the SPy form transitioned to the merocyanine form.…”

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“…In addition to the demonstration of plasmonic-molecular resonance coupling for small-molecule detection, coupling of this kind has been used for the monitoring of reversible switching of molecules from non-resonant to resonant states, so-called molecular plasmonic switching [164][165][166][167][168][169][170]. For instance, chemically driven redox-controllable bistable [2]rotaxane was reported for the construction of a molecular plasmonic switch (Fig.…”

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Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors

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Based on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metallic nanoparticles, plasmonic nanosensors have emerged as a powerful tool for biosensing applications. Many detection schemes have been developed and the field is rapidly growing to incorporate new methodologies and applications. Amidst all the ongoing research efforts, one common factor remains a key driving force: continued improvement of high-sensitivity detection. Although there are many excellent reviews available that describe the general progress of LSPR-based plasmonic biosensors, there has been limited attention to strategies for improving the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors. Recognizing the importance of this subject, this review highlights recent progress on different strategies used for improving the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors. These strategies are classified into the following three categories based on their different sensing mechanisms: (1) sensing based on target-induced local refractive index changes, (2) colorimetric sensing based on LSPR coupling, and (3) amplification of detection sensitivity based on nanoparticle growth. The basic principles and cutting-edge examples are provided for each kind of strategy, collectively forming a unifying framework to view the latest attempts to improve the sensitivity of nanoplasmonic sensors. Future trends for the fabrication of improved plasmonic nanosensors are also discussed.

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Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors

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“…Specifically, plasmonic cavities are specially designed metallic nanostructures, in which collective oscillation of conduction electrons, known as localized surface plasmons, can be excited upon illumination. The interaction between plasmonic resonances and nearby atomic or molecular excitons gives rise to so called plexcitonic coupling [16].For convenience of measurements, previous experiments exploring plexcitonic coupling were primarily based on ensemble metallic nanostructures, including arrays of nanovoids [17,18] or nanoparticles (NPs) [19][20][21][22][23] and nanocrystals in solution [16,[24][25][26]. Recently several groups have 3 moved to a much smaller scale, investigating strong interaction of molecular excitons with individual plasmonic resonators, such as metallic nanospheres [27,28], nanorods [29][30][31], nanoprisms [15] and nanodisk dimers [13].…”

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Mode Modification of Plasmonic Gap Resonances Induced by Strong Coupling with Molecular Excitons

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Qin

et al. 2017

Nano Lett.

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Plasmonic cavities can be used to control the atom-photon coupling process at the nanoscale, since they provide ultrahigh density of optical states in an exceptionally small mode volume. Here we demonstrate strong coupling between molecular excitons and plasmonic resonances (so-called plexcitonic coupling) in a film-coupled nanocube cavity, which can induce profound and significant spectral and spatial modifications to the plasmonic gap modes. Within the spectral span of a single gap mode in the nanotube-film cavity with a 3-nm wide gap, the introduction of narrow-band J-aggregate dye molecules not only enables an anti-crossing behavior in the spectral response, but also splits the single spatial mode into two distinct modes that are easily identified by their far-field scattering profiles. Simulation results confirm the experimental findings and the sensitivity of the plexcitonic coupling is explored using digital control of the gap spacing. Our work opens up a new perspective to study the strong coupling process, greatly extending the functionality of nanophotonic systems, with the potential to be applied in cavity quantum electrodynamic systems. † These authors contributed equally to this work 2 Strong light-matter interactions build upon fast energy exchange [1] between excitonic quantum emitters and electromagnetic (EM) modes in a cavity, which leads to cavity-exciton mode hybridization, manifesting as a split in the cavity spectral response, known as vacuum Rabi splitting.Understanding these phenomena is very important for cavity quantum electrodynamics applications [2,3]; for example, quantum computing requires repeated manipulation of excitonic states with photons before atomic or molecular excitons lose their coherence. On the other hand, once strongly coupled to a resonant cavity, electronic states of molecules can be greatly reshaped [4] from those in free space, enabling a variety of extraordinary effects, such as modification of molecular thermodynamics [5] and chemical landscape [6], mediation of energy transfer between multiple molecules [7] and even alternation of photosynthetic processes in bacteria [8].Strong coupling (SC) requires a high atomic cooperativity (, where g is the coupling strength, γ and κ are the spectral width of the excitonic transition of emitters and EM modes respectively. To achieve high C, traditional investigations [9][10][11][12] have used cavities with high Q performance (quality factor κ ω / = Q , where ω is the oscillation frequency of the cavity).Another solution is to reduce the cavity mode volume V, sincewhere N is the number of excitons contributing to the coupling process. In this context, plasmonic cavities have been proposed to investigate strong coupling, because these cavities can concentrate light energy within deep subwavelength volumes, and thus are capable of providing high cooperativity by compensating their moderate Q values with ultra-small V [13][14][15]. Specifically, plasmonic cavities are specially designed metallic nanostructures, in w...

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“…A reversible strong coupling was found between dipolar surface plasmon resonance of Ag nanoparticles and the electronic transition of spiropyran molecules in a polymer binder [115]. The coupling strength depended on the spectral position of the surface plasmon resonance and the conformational molecular state.…”

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Nanophotochromism

Barachevsky¹

2015

Organic Photonics and Photovoltaics

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Abstract:The review presents the state-of-the-art analysis of investigations in the field of a new line of research of photochromism -nanophotochromism. The design, properties, and possible applications of photochromic nanoparticles prepared by different methods with the use of photochromic substances (aggregates, host-guest, and polymer systems, solid nanoparticles) as well as core-shell photochromic nanostructures based on polymers, silica, quantum dots, doped upconversion nanocrystals, and Ag, Au, etc. nanoparticles have been reviewed. Keywords: photochromism; photochromic nanoparticles; core-shell photochromic nanoparticles design; photoswitching; aggregates; polymer systems, host-guest systems IntroductionPhotochromism is a very important phenomenon for different applications in photonics. The applications are based on reversible phototransformations of photochromic compounds between two states and changes of their properties that accompany these transformations At present, systems and materials containing photochromic nanopatricles have become highly significant. Among these are nanodimensional particles of photochromic substances, including aggregates, and coreshell systems. As a core, inorganic nanoparticles of gold, silver, metal oxides, quantum dots (QD), and also polymeric nanoparticles are used. The shell consists of photochromic molecules or their aggregates connected to a core surface either chemically or physically. Photochromic nanoparticles with photocontrolled fluorescence arouse a special interest because the fluorescence technique is becoming a leading strategy in biological diagnosis, imaging, and detection applications. This paper is a state-of-the-art review which presents results of studying photochromic nanoparticles including author's own data. The results of earlier research are also surveyed in some other reviews [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Photochromic nanoparticles:properties and applications Nanoparticles based on photochromic substances AggregatesThe most known photochromic nanoparticles are aggregates of photochromic organic compounds [14]. These compounds experience reversible photoinduced transformations between two states, Sch. 1A and Sch. 1B. Scheme 1The photoinduced colored merocyanine form B absorbing visible irradiation is formed from a colorless form A as a result of photodissociation of the -C-O-bond of the pyran heterocycle under UV radiation, and this is followed by spontaneous isomerization of the cis-form to the trans one. The colored form B can be converted back to the initial colorless form A upon absorption of visible light or spontaneously during the dark relaxation, which is accelerated by heating.The J-aggregates of nitro-substituted indoline spiropyrans Sch. 2 with long alkyl substituents are of special interest [15].The narrow absorption bands of J-aggregates of these photochromic compounds (Fig. 1) made it possible prepare a specimen of the multilayered optical disk providing freUnauthenticated Download

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Reversible Strong Coupling in Silver Nanoparticle Arrays Using Photochromic Molecules

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Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors

Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors

Mode Modification of Plasmonic Gap Resonances Induced by Strong Coupling with Molecular Excitons

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