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ArticleScientific reports2015

Tunable Optical Nanoantennas Incorporating Bowtie Nanoantenna Arrays with Stimuli-Responsive Polymer.

Qiugu Wang, Longju Liu, Yifei Wang, Peng Liu, Huawei Jiang, Zhen Xu, Zhuo Ma, Seval Oren, Edmond K C Chow, Meng Lu and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Qiugu WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Longju LiuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Yifei WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Peng LiuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Huawei JiangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Zhen XuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Zhuo MaDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Seval OrenDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Edmond K C ChowMicro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Meng LuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Liang DongDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report on a temperature-responsive tunable plasmonic device that incorporates coupled bowtie nanoantenna arrays (BNAs) with a submicron-thick, thermosensitive hydrogel coating. The coupled plasmonic nanoparticles provide an intrinsically higher field enhancement than conventional individual nanoparticles. The favorable scaling of plasmonic dimers at the nanometer scale and ionic diffusion at the submicron scale is leveraged to achieve strong optical resonance and rapid hydrogel response, respectively. We demonstrate that the hydrogel-coated BNAs are able to sense environmental temperature variations. The phase transition of hydrogel leads to 16.2 nm of resonant wavelength shift for the hydrogel-coated BNAs, whereas only 3 nm for the uncoated counterpart. The response time of the device to temperature variations is only 250 ms, due to the small hydrogel thickness at the submicron scale. The demonstration of the ability of the device to tune its optical resonance in response to an environmental stimulus (here, temperature) suggests a possibility of making many other tunable plasmonic devices through the incorporation of coupled plasmonic nanostructures and various environmental-responsive hydrogels.

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