ArticleNature communications2021
Nanoelectromechanical modulation of a strongly-coupled plasmonic dimer.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Roadmap for Quantum Nanophotonics with Free Electrons.ACS photonics · 2025Review
- Nanoplasmonic biosensors for environmental sustainability and human health.Chemical Society reviews · 2024Review
- Switching on Versatility: Recent Advances in Switchable Plasmonic Nanostructures.Small science · 2023Article
- Spatio-spectral metrics in electron energy loss spectroscopy as a tool to resolve nearly degenerate plasmon modes in dimer plasmonic antennas.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Article
- Travelling-Wave Electrophoresis, Electro-Hydrodynamics, Electro-Rotation, and Symmetry- Breaking of a Polarizable Dimer in Non-Uniform Fields.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Gaptronics: multilevel photonics applications spanning zero-nanometer limits.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Review
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Abstract
The ability of two nearly-touching plasmonic nanoparticles to squeeze light into a nanometer gap has provided a myriad of fundamental insights into light-matter interaction. In this work, we construct a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that capitalizes on the unique, singular behavior that arises at sub-nanometer particle-spacings to create an electro-optical modulator. Using in situ electron energy loss spectroscopy in a transmission electron microscope, we map the spectral and spatial changes in the plasmonic modes as they hybridize and evolve from a weak to a strong coupling regime. In the strongly-coupled regime, we observe a very large mechanical tunability (~250 meV/nm) of the bonding-dipole plasmon resonance of the dimer at ~1 nm gap spacing, right before detrimental quantum effects set in. We leverage our findings to realize a prototype NEMS light-intensity modulator operating at ~10 MHz and with a power consumption of only 4 fJ/bit.
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