Shape-Dependent Nonlinear Optical Properties of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles

Hua, Yi; Chandra, Kavita; Dam, Duncan Hieu M.; Wiederrecht, Gary P.; Odom, Teri W.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02263

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“…It should be mentioned that behavior found for the DLC:Cu nanocomposite films, similar to our case (the correlation between the saturable absorbance and relaxation time of photo-excited carriers), was reported for Au nanostructures (nanorods, nanostars, and nanoshells) in [34]. Particularly, a very similar surface plasmon resonance peak position was found for different nanostructures in optical extinction spectra.…”

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Self-Saturable Absorption and Reverse-Saturable Absorption Effects in Diamond-Like Carbon Films with Embedded Copper Nanoparticles

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Nonlinear optical properties (self-saturable absorption and reverse-saturable absorption) of diamond-like carbon films with variable amounts of embedded copper nanoparticle (DLC:Cu) films deposited by high power pulse magnetron sputtering were studied in dependence on deposition conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to study elemental composition and He ion microscopy to study changes of the size, shape, and concentration of the Cu nanoparticles deposited using different pulse currents as well as argon and acetylene gas ratios. Raman scattering spectra of DLC:Cu films studied were typical of diamond-like carbon (including the films with a high Cu atomic concentration where it was up to 60 atom % and carbon atomic concentration was less than 20 atom %). In all cases, in the absorption spectra of DLC:Cu films, the surface plasmon resonance-related peak was recorded. The position of the plasmonic peak for all the deposited nanocomposite films was in a 590–620 nm range. For the samples containing lower amounts of copper, reverse-saturable absorption was found. Transient optical absorption measurements have shown that the reverse-saturable absorption is typical for the samples with a lower relaxation time. The longer relaxation times recorded during transient optical absorption measurements correlated with the presence of the saturable absorption effect. For DLC:Cu samples containing 58–62 atom % Cu, some optical inhomogeneities were observed. The samples in different places demonstrated either saturable absorption or reverse-saturable absorption. The presence of both saturable and reverse-saturable absorption effects in the same sample is explained by the lateral inhomogeneities of the DLC:Cu films.

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Self-Saturable Absorption and Reverse-Saturable Absorption Effects in Diamond-Like Carbon Films with Embedded Copper Nanoparticles

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“…the controllable anisotropy in the superlattice case might be useful for applications such as power limiting (Poirier et al 2002;Wu et al 2003). Here the anisotropy-induced nonlinearity in the nanostructure is controlled per design in contrast with recent studies in which it depends on nanoparticle shape (Hua et al 2015). We show that the nonlinearities increase with the anisotropic character.…”

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Anisotropy and nonlinearity in superlattices

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2016

Opt Quant Electron

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“…the controllable anisotropy in the superlattice case might be useful for applications such as power limiting (Poirier et al 2002;Wu et al 2003). Here the anisotropy-induced nonlinearity in the nanostructure is controlled per design in contrast with less controllable recent studies in which it depends on the nanoparticle shape (Hua et al 2015). We show that the nonlinearities increase with the anisotropic character, but the results are only valid as long as sufficient tunnelling occurs.…”

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