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Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires.

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Sanders, AW; Routenberg, DA; Wiley, BJ; Xia, Y; Dufresne, ER; Reed, MA
Published in: Nano letters
August 2006

We report the coupling of free-space photons (vacuum wavelength of 830 nm) to surface plasmon modes of a silver nanowire. The launch of propagating plasmons, and the subsequent emission of photons, is selective and occurs only at ends and other discontinuities of the nanowire. In addition, we observe that the nanowires redirect the plasmons through turns of radii as small as 4 microm. We exploit the radiating nature of discontinuities to find a plasmon propagation length >3 +/- 1 microm. Finally, we observe that interwire plasmon coupling occurs for overlapping wires, demonstrating plasmon fan-out at subwavelength scales.

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Nano letters

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EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

August 2006

Volume

6

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1822 / 1826

Related Subject Headings

  • Surface Plasmon Resonance
  • Silver
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Nanotubes
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Materials Testing
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Light
 

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Sanders, A. W., Routenberg, D. A., Wiley, B. J., Xia, Y., Dufresne, E. R., & Reed, M. A. (2006). Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires. Nano Letters, 6(8), 1822–1826. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl052471v
Sanders, Aric W., David A. Routenberg, Benjamin J. Wiley, Younan Xia, Eric R. Dufresne, and Mark A. Reed. “Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires.Nano Letters 6, no. 8 (August 2006): 1822–26. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl052471v.
Sanders AW, Routenberg DA, Wiley BJ, Xia Y, Dufresne ER, Reed MA. Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires. Nano letters. 2006 Aug;6(8):1822–6.
Sanders, Aric W., et al. “Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires.Nano Letters, vol. 6, no. 8, Aug. 2006, pp. 1822–26. Epmc, doi:10.1021/nl052471v.
Sanders AW, Routenberg DA, Wiley BJ, Xia Y, Dufresne ER, Reed MA. Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires. Nano letters. 2006 Aug;6(8):1822–1826.
Journal cover image

Published In

Nano letters

DOI

EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

August 2006

Volume

6

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1822 / 1826

Related Subject Headings

  • Surface Plasmon Resonance
  • Silver
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Nanotubes
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Materials Testing
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Light