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Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires.

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Jones, AC; Olmon, RL; Skrabalak, SE; Wiley, BJ; Xia, YN; Raschke, MB
Published in: Nano letters
July 2009

Chemically synthesized metallic nanostructures can exhibit a strong local optical field enhancement associated with their high degree of crystallinity and well-defined geometry-dependent surface plasmon resonances. The extension of the plasmon modes into the mid-IR spectral range (3-30 microm) is shown for micrometer-sized nanowires with high aspect ratios available in the form of pentagonally twinned Ag crystallites as grown by polyol synthesis. Using scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy, the associated IR plasmon modes are identified, and their underlying spatial distribution and enhancement of the optical polarization density is measured via phase, amplitude, and polarization resolved optical vector-field mapping. The transition from dipolar to multipolar resonances is observed and described by modeling the Ag wires using a modified cylindrical waveguide theory. For 10.6 microm excitation, dipole antenna resonances are observed at a resonant length of L = lambda(eff)/2 with lambda(eff) approximately 10.6 microm/(1.8 +/- 0.5) approximately 6 +/- 2 microm. This effective wavelength scaling is the result of electronic damping, despite the high aspect ratios of the wires of order 1:10 to 1:200. With the optical cycle period tau(IR) being comparable to the Drude relaxation time of tau approximately 40 fs the mid-IR defines the low-energy limit of the coherent plasmon regime (tau(IR) less, similar tau) at the transition to purely geometric antenna resonances (tau(IR) > tau).

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Nano letters

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EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

July 2009

Volume

9

Issue

7

Start / End Page

2553 / 2558

Related Subject Headings

  • Surface Plasmon Resonance
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
  • Silver
  • Nanowires
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Microscopy
 

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Jones, A. C., Olmon, R. L., Skrabalak, S. E., Wiley, B. J., Xia, Y. N., & Raschke, M. B. (2009). Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires. Nano Letters, 9(7), 2553–2558. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl900638p
Jones, Andrew C., Robert L. Olmon, Sara E. Skrabalak, Benjamin J. Wiley, Younan N. Xia, and Markus B. Raschke. “Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires.Nano Letters 9, no. 7 (July 2009): 2553–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl900638p.
Jones AC, Olmon RL, Skrabalak SE, Wiley BJ, Xia YN, Raschke MB. Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires. Nano letters. 2009 Jul;9(7):2553–8.
Jones, Andrew C., et al. “Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires.Nano Letters, vol. 9, no. 7, July 2009, pp. 2553–58. Epmc, doi:10.1021/nl900638p.
Jones AC, Olmon RL, Skrabalak SE, Wiley BJ, Xia YN, Raschke MB. Mid-IR plasmonics: near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires. Nano letters. 2009 Jul;9(7):2553–2558.
Journal cover image

Published In

Nano letters

DOI

EISSN

1530-6992

ISSN

1530-6984

Publication Date

July 2009

Volume

9

Issue

7

Start / End Page

2553 / 2558

Related Subject Headings

  • Surface Plasmon Resonance
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
  • Silver
  • Nanowires
  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  • Microscopy