Plasmon Resonances in V-Shaped Gold Nanostructures

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-243

  Stokes, Nicholas ^a,c   Cortie, Michael B ^a   Davis, Timothy J ^b   McDonagh, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eigenmode; Gold; Nanorod; Plasmon hybridization; V shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864086102     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9299-z     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Ueno K et al (2005) Optical properties of nanoengineered gold blocks. Optics Lett 30(16): 2158-2160.
2. Stokes N, McDonagh A, Cortie MB (2010) Spectrally selective coatings based on anisotropic gold nanoparticles. J Nanopart Res 12(8): 2821-2830.
3. Zijlstra P, Chon JWM, Gu M (2009) Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods. Nature 459: 410-413.
4. Cortie M, Xu X, Ford M (2006) Effect of composition and packing configuration on the dichroic optical properties of coinage metal nanorods. Phys Chem Chem Phys 8: 3520-3527.
5. Huang X et al (2008) Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles. Lasers Med Sci 23: 217-228.
6. Pissuwan D et al (2007) A golden bullet? Selective targeting of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites using antibody-functionalised gold nanoparticles. Nano Lett 7(12): 3808-3812.
7. Kealley CS et al (2010) Sensors based on monochromatic interrogation of a localised surface plasmon resonance. Sens Actuators B 148: 34-40.
8. Yi M et al (2011) Fluorescence enhancement caused by plasmonics coupling between silver nano-cubes and silver film. Plasmonics 6(2): 213-217.
9. Huang X et al (2006) Cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy in the near-infrared region by using gold nanorods. J Am Chem Soc 128(6): 2115-2120.
10. Liu L et al (2011) Application of gold nanorods for plasmonic and magnetic imaging of cancer cells. Plasmonics 6(1): 105-112.
11. Pissuwan D, Valenzuela SM, Cortie MB (2008) Prospects for gold nanorod particles in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 25: 93-112.
12. Wang H et al (2005) In vitro and in vivo two-photon luminescence imaging of single gold nanorods. Proc Natl Acad Sci 102(44): 15752-15756.
13. Farrer RA et al (2005) Highly efficient multiphoton-absorption-induced luminescence from gold nanoparticles. Nano Lett 5(6): 1139-1142.
14. Cohanoschi I, Hernández FE (2005) Surface plasmon enhancement of two- and three-photon absorption of Hoechst 33 258 dye in activated gold colloid solution. J Phys Chem B 109: 14506-14512.
15. Wenseleers W et al (2002) Five orders-of-magnitude enhancement of two-photon absorption for dyes on silver nanoparticle fractal clusters. J Phys Chem B 106(27): 6853-6863.
16. Ueno K et al (2008) Nanoparticle plasmon-assisted two-photon polymerization induced by incoherent excitation source. J Am Chem Soc 130(22): 6928-6929.
17. ten Bloemendal D et al (2006) Local field spectroscopy of metal dimers by TPL microscopy. Plasmonics 1(1): 41-44.
18. Geldhauser T et al (2011) Visualization of near-field enhancements of gold triangles by nonlinear photopolymerization. Plasmonics 6: 207-212.
19. Tierney MJ, Martin CR (1989) Transparent metal microstructures. J Phys Chem 93(8): 2878-2880.
20. Foss CA et al (1992) Optical properties of composite membranes containing arrays of nanoscopic gold cylinders. J Phys Chem 96(19): 7497-7499.
21. Nikoobakht B, El-Sayed MA (2003) Preparation and growth mechanism of gold nanorods (NRs) using seed-mediated growth method. Chem Mater 15: 1957-1962.
22. Jana NR, Gearheart L, Murphy CJ (2001) Seed-mediated growth approach for shape controlled synthesis of spheroidal and rod-like gold nanoparticles using a surfactant template. Adv Mater 13(18): 1389-1393.
23. Stokes N, McDonagh AM, Cortie MB (2007) Preparation of nanoscale gold structures by nanolithography. Gold Bull 40(4): 310-320.
24. Yu Y-Y et al (1997) Gold nanorods: electrochemical synthesis and optical properties. J Phys Chem B 101: 6661-6664.
25. Duan JS et al (2009) Optical properties of rodlike metallic nanostructures: insight from theory and experiment. J Phys Chem C 113(35): 15524-15532.
26. Aizpurua J et al (2003) Optical properties of gold nanorings. Phys Rev Lett 90(5): 057401.
27. Spector S et al (2001) Infrared frequency selective surfaces fabricated using optical lithography and phase-shift masks. J Vac Sci Technol B 19(6): 2757-2760.
28. Ueno K et al (2008) Clusters of closely spaced gold nanoparticles as a source of two-photon photoluminescence at visible wavelengths. Adv Mater 20(1): 26-30.
29. Cortie MB, Stokes N, McDonagh A (2010) Plasmon resonance and electric field amplification of crossed gold nanorod targets. Photonics Nanostructures Fundam Appl 7(3): 143-152.
30. Khlebtsov BN, Khlebtsov NG (2007) Multipole plasmons in metal nanorods: scaling properties and dependence on particle size, shape, orientation, and dielectric environment. J Phys Chem C 111: 11516-11527.
31. Payne EK et al (2006) Multipole plasmon resonances in gold nanorods. J Phys Chem B 110: 2150-2154.
32. Jain PK, Eustis S, El-Sayed MA (2006) Plasmon coupling in nanorod assemblies: optical absorption, discrete dipole approximation simulation, and exciton-coupling model. J Phys Chem B 110(37): 18243-18253.
33. Funston AM et al (2009) Plasmon coupling of gold nanorods at short distances and in different geometries. Nano Lett 9(4): 1651-1658.
34. Stokes N (2010) Optically-selective window coatings of precious metal nanoparticles, PhD, Dept. of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology Sydney.
35. Draine BT, Flatau PJ (1994) Discrete-dipole approximation for scattering calculations. J Opt Soc Am A 11(4): 1491-1499.
36. Draine BT, Flatau PJ (2008) User guide for the discrete dipole approximation code DDSCAT 7. 0, http://arxiv. org/abs/0809. 0337. Accessed Sept 2008.
37. Brioude A, Jiang XC, Pileni MP (2005) Optical properties of gold nanorods: DDA simulations supported by experiments. J Phys Chem B 109: 13138-13142.
38. Kelly KL et al (2003) The optical properties of metal nanoparticles: the influence of size, shape, and dielectric environment. J Phys Chem B 107: 668-677.
39. Myroshnychenko V et al (2008) Modelling the optical response of gold nanoparticles. Chem Soc Rev 37: 1792-1805.
40. Nebeker BM, de la Peña JL, Hirleman D (2001) Comparisons of the discrete-dipole approximation and modified double interaction model methods to predict light scattering from small features on surfaces. J Quant Spectrosc Radiat Transfer 70: 749-759.
41. Yurkin MA, Hoekstra AG (2007) The discrete dipole approximation: an overview and recent developments. J Quant Spectrosc Radiat Transfer 106: 558-589.
42. Weaver JH, Frederikse HPR (2001) In: Lide DR (ed) CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 12-133.
43. Novo C et al (2008) Influence of the medium refractive index on the optical properties of single gold triangular prisms on a substrate. J Phys Chem C Lett 112: 3-7.
44. 3 (0001). Phys Rev B 65: 235424.
45. Mayergoyz ID, Fredkin DR, Zhang Z (2005) Electrostatic (plasmon) resonances in nanoparticles. Phys Rev B 72: 155412.
46. Hohenester U, Krenn J (2005) Surface plasmon resonances of single and coupled metallic nanoparticles: a boundary integral method approach. Phys Rev B 72: 195429.
47. Willingham B, Brandl DW, Nordlander P (2008) Plasmon hybridization in nanorod dimers. Appl Phys B 93: 209-216.
48. Halas NJ et al (2011) Plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures. Chem Rev 111: 3913-3961.
49. Gluodenis M, Jr CAF (2002) The effect of mutual orientation on the spectra of metal nanoparticle rod-rod and rod-sphere pairs. J Phys Chem B 106(37): 9484-9489.
50. Tovmachenko OG et al (2006) Fluorescence enhancement by metal-core/silica-shell nanoparticles. Adv Mater 18: 91-95.
51. Liu J et al (2006) Anisotropic optical properties of semitransparent coatings of gold nanocaps. Adv Funct Mater 16(11): 1457-1461.