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ArticleACS nano2015

Controllable Tuning Plasmonic Coupling with Nanoscale Oxidation.

Tao Ding, Daniel Sigle, Liwu Zhang, Jan Mertens, Bart de Nijs, Jeremy Baumberg

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Article in ACS nano, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Tao DingNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Daniel SigleNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Liwu ZhangNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Jan MertensNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Bart de NijsNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Jeremy BaumbergNanophotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

European Research Council 320503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nanoparticle on mirror (NPoM) construct is ideal for the strong coupling of localized plasmons because of its simple fabrication and the nanometer-scale gaps it offers. Both of these are much harder to control in nanoparticle dimers. Even so, realizing controllable gap sizes in a NPoM remains difficult and continuous tunability is limited. Here, we use reactive metals as the mirror so that the spacing layer of resulting metal oxide can be easily and controllably created with specific thicknesses resulting in continuous tuning of the plasmonic coupling. Using Al as a case study, we contrast different approaches for oxidation including electrochemical oxidation, thermal annealing, oxygen plasma treatments, and photo-oxidation by laser irradiation. The thickness of the oxidation layer is calibrated with depth-mode X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS). These all consistently show that increasing the thickness of the oxidation layer blue-shifts the plasmonic resonance peak while the transverse mode remains constant, which is well matched by simulations. Our approach provides a facile and reproducible method for scalable, local and controllable fabrication of NPoMs with tailored plasmonic coupling, suited for many applications of sensing, photochemistry, photoemission, and photovoltaics.

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aluminumelectrochemistryirradiationoxidizationplasmons

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PMID25978297
PMCPMC4485956
OpenAlexW2410274653

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