Plasmonic mode interferences and Fano resonances in Metal-Insulator-Metal nanostructured interface

R Nicolas, G Lévêque, J Marae-Djouda, G Montay… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
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Metal-insulator-metal systems exhibit a rich underlying physics leading to a high degree of
tunability of their spectral properties. We performed a systematic study on a metal-insulator-
nanostructured metal system with a thin 6 nm dielectric spacer and showed how the
nanoparticle sizes and excitation conditions lead to the tunability and coupling/decoupling of
localized and delocalized plasmonic modes. We also experimentally evidenced a tunable
Fano resonance in a broad spectral window 600 to 800 nm resulting from the interference of …
Abstract
Metal-insulator-metal systems exhibit a rich underlying physics leading to a high degree of tunability of their spectral properties. We performed a systematic study on a metal-insulator-nanostructured metal system with a thin 6 nm dielectric spacer and showed how the nanoparticle sizes and excitation conditions lead to the tunability and coupling/decoupling of localized and delocalized plasmonic modes. We also experimentally evidenced a tunable Fano resonance in a broad spectral window 600 to 800 nm resulting from the interference of gap modes with white light broad band transmitted waves at the interface playing the role of the continuum. By varying the incident illumination angle shifts in the resonances give the possibility to couple or decouple the localized and delocalized modes and to induce a strong change of the asymmetric Fano profile. All these results were confirmed with a crossed comparison between experimental and theoretical measurements, confirming the nature of different modes. The high degree of control and tunability of this plasmonically rich system paves the way for designing and engineering of similar systems with numerous applications. In particular, sensing measurements were performed and a figure of merit of 3.8 was recorded ranking this sensor among the highest sensitive in this wavelength range.
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