Plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures

NJ Halas, S Lal, WS Chang, S Link… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The vivid optical properties of noble metal nanoparticles have been an object of fascination
since ancient times. The ruby red of stained glass windows arises from gold nanoparticles …

Plasmonic nanoantennas: fundamentals and their use in controlling the radiative properties of nanoemitters

V Giannini, AI Fernández-Domínguez, SC Heck… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
When light interacts with a metal nanoparticle (NP), its conduction electrons can be driven
by the incident electric field in collective oscillations known as localized surface plasmon …

Large-scale hot spot engineering for quantitative SERS at the single-molecule scale

HY Chen, MH Lin, CY Wang, YM Chang… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Quantitative surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) requires precise control of
Raman enhancement factor and detection uniformity across the SERS substrate. Here, we …

Controlling the synthesis and assembly of silver nanostructures for plasmonic applications

M Rycenga, CM Cobley, J Zeng, W Li… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Coinage metals, such as Au, Ag, and Cu, have been important materials throughout
history.(1) Although in ancient cultures they were admired primarily for their ability to reflect …

Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

P Biagioni, JS Huang, B Hecht - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation can strongly enhance the interaction of light
with nanoscale matter by their ability to efficiently link propagating and spatially localized …

Substrate-induced Fano resonances of a plasmonic nanocube: a route to increased-sensitivity localized surface plasmon resonance sensors revealed

S Zhang, K Bao, NJ Halas, H Xu, P Nordlander - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
Symmetry-breaking introduced by an adjacent semi-infinite dielectric can introduce coupling
and hybridization of the plasmon modes of a metallic nanostructure. This effect is particularly …

Transition from isolated to collective modes in plasmonic oligomers

M Hentschel, M Saliba, R Vogelgesang, H Giessen… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the transition from isolated to collective optical modes in plasmonic
oligomers. Specifically, we investigate the resonant behavior of planar plasmonic hexamers …

On the energy shift between near-field and far-field peak intensities in localized plasmon systems

J Zuloaga, P Nordlander - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
The localized plasmons of metallic nanoparticles and nanostructures are known to display
an interesting and apparently universal phenomenon: upon optical excitation, the maximum …

Fano resonance in novel plasmonic nanostructures

M Rahmani, B Luk'yanchuk… - Laser & Photonics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a large number of experimental and theoretical works have revealed a variety of
plasmonic nanostructures with the capabilities of Fano resonance (FR) generation. Among …

Probing nanoparticle plasmons with electron energy loss spectroscopy

Y Wu, G Li, JP Camden - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) performed in a scanning transmission electron
microscope (STEM) has demonstrated unprecedented power in the characterization of …