Enhanced infrared spectroscopy using small-gap antennas prepared with two-step evaporation nanosphere lithography

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14425-14432

  Hoffmann, Jón Mattis ^a   Janssen, Hendrik ^a   Chigrin, Dmitry N ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSPHERES; SILICA;

ANTENNA RESONANCE; EVAPORATION SOURCE; INFRARED ANTENNAS; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SMALL GAPS; SPECTRAL COUPLING; SURFACE-ENHANCED INFRARED ABSORPTIONS;

EVAPORATION;

EID: 84902973625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014425     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. M. Moskovits, "Surface-enhanced spectroscopy," Rev. Mod. Phys. 57(3), 783-826 (1985).
2. F. Neubrech, A. Pucci, T. W. Cornelius, S. Karim, A. García- Etxarri, and J. Aizpurua, "Resonant plasmonic and vibrational coupling in a tailored nanoantenna for infrared detection," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101(15), 157403 (2008).
3. R. Adato, A. A. Yanik, J. J. Amsden, D. L. Kaplan, F. G. Omenetto, M. K. Hong, S. Erramilli, and H. Altug, "Ultra-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy of protein monolayers with plasmonic nanoantenna arrays," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106(46), 19227-19232 (2009).
4. P. J. Schuck, D. P. Fromm, A. Sundaramurthy, G. S. Kino, and W. E. Moerner, "Improving the mismatch between light and nanoscale objects with gold bowtie nanoantennas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94(1), 017402 (2005).
5. A. Sundaramurthy, K. B. Crozier, G. S. Kino, D. Fromm, P. Schuck, and W. Moerner, "Field enhancement and gap-dependent resonance in a system of two opposing tip-to-tip Au nanotriangles," Phys. Rev. B 72(16), 165409 (2005).
6. H. Fischer and O. J. F. Martin, "Engineering the optical response of plasmonic nanoantennas," Opt. Express 16(12), 9144-9154 (2008).
7. H. Wang, J. Kundu, and N. J. Halas, "Plasmonic nanoshell arrays combine surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopies on a single substrate," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 46(47), 9040-9044 (2007).
8. F. Le Kundu, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas, "Surface enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy on nanoshell aggregate substrates," Chem. Phys. Lett. 452(1-3), 115-119 (2008).
9. A. Pucci, F. Neubrech, D. Weber, S. Hong, T. Toury, and M. L. De La Chapelle, "Surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy using gold nanoantennas," Phys. Status Solidi B 247(8), 2071-2074 (2010).
10. F. Neubrech, D. Weber, J. Katzmann, C. Huck, A. Toma, E. Di Fabrizio, A. Pucci, and T. Härtling, "Infrared optical properties of nanoantenna dimers with photochemically narrowed gaps in the 5 nm regime," ACS Nano 6(8), 7326-7332 (2012).
11. H. Duan, H. Hu, K. Kumar, Z. Shen, and J. K. W. Yang, "Direct and reliable patterning of plasmonic nanostructures with sub-10-nm gaps," ACS Nano 5(9), 7593-7600 (2011).
12. M. Manheller, S. Trellenkamp, R. Waser, and S. Karthäuser, "Reliable fabrication of 3 nm gaps between nanoelectrodes by electron-beam lithography," Nanotechnology 23(12), 125302 (2012).
13. P. Steinmann and J. M. R. Weaver, "Fabrication of sub-5," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 22(6), 3178 (2004).
14. O. Scholder, K. Jefimovs, I. Shorubalko, C. Hafner, U. Sennhauser, and G.-L. Bona, "Helium focused ion beam fabricated plasmonic antennas with sub-5 nm gaps," Nanotechnology 24(39), 395301 (2013).
15. H. Im, K. C. Bantz, N. C. Lindquist, C. L. Haynes, and S.-H. Oh, "Vertically oriented sub-10-nm plasmonic nanogap arrays," Nano Lett. 10(6), 2231-2236 (2010).
16. J. Merlein, M. Kahl, A. Zuschlag, A. Sell, A. Halm, J. Boneberg, P. Leiderer, A. Leitenstorfer, and R. Bratschitsch, "Nanomechanical control of an optical antenna," Nat. Photonics 2(4), 230-233 (2008).
17. U. C. Fischer and H. P. Zingsheim, "Submicroscopic pattern replication with visible light," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. 19(4), 881-885 (1981).
18. H. W. Deckman and J. H. Dunsmuir, "Natural lithography," Appl. Phys. Lett. 41(4), 377 (1982).
19. T. R. Jensen, M. D. Malinsky, C. L. Haynes, and R. P. Van Duyne, "Nanosphere lithography: tunable localized surface plasmon resonance spectra of silver nanoparticles," J. Phys. Chem. B 104(45), 10549-10556 (2000).
20. G. H. Chan, J. Zhao, G. C. Schatz, and R. P. V. Duyne, "Localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of triangular aluminum nanoparticles," J. Phys. Chem. C 112(36), 13958-13963 (2008).
21. J. Zhao, B. Frank, S. Burger, and H. Giessen, "Large-area high-quality plasmonic oligomers fabricated by anglecontrolled colloidal nanolithography," ACS Nano 5(11), 9009-9016 (2011).
22. J. M. Hoffmann, X. Yin, J. Richter, A. Hartung, T. W. W. Maß, and T. Taubner, "Low-cost infrared resonant structures for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy in the fingerprint region from 3 to 13 μ," J. Phys. Chem. C 117(21), 11311-11316 (2013).
23. A. Kosiorek, W. Kandulski, H. Glaczynska, and M. Giersig, "Fabrication of nanoscale rings, dots, and rods by combining shadow nanosphere lithography and annealed polystyrene nanosphere masks," Small 1(4), 439-444 (2005).
24. C. L. Haynes and R. P. Van Duyne, "Nanosphere lithography: a versatile nanofabrication tool for studies of sizedependent nanoparticle optics," J. Phys. Chem. B 105(24), 5599-5611 (2001).
25. C. Haynes, A. McFarland, M. Smith, J. Hulteen, and R. Van Duyne, "Angle-resolved nanosphere lithography: Manipulation of nanoparticle size, shape, and interparticle spacing," J. Phys. Chem. B 106(8), 1898-1902 (2002).
26. J. C. Hulteen and R. P. Van Duyne, "Nanosphere lithography - A materials general fabrication process for periodic particle array surfaces," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 13(3), 1553-1558 (1995).
27. C. L. Haynes and R. P. Van Duyne, "Dichroic optical properties of extended nanostructures fabricated using angle-resolved nanosphere lithography," Nano Lett. 3(7), 939-943 (2003).
28. S. Mukherjee, H. Sobhani, J. B. Lassiter, R. Bardhan, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas, "Fanoshells: nanoparticles with built-in fano resonances," Nano Lett. 10(7), 2694-2701 (2010).
29. F. Neubrech, D. Weber, D. Enders, T. Nagao, and A. Pucci, "Antenna sensing of surface phonon polaritons," J. Phys. Chem. C 114(16), 7299-7301 (2010).
30. A. Kinkhabwala, Z. Yu, S. Fan, Y. Avlasevich, K. Müllen, and W. E. Moerner, "Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna," Nat. Photonics 3(11), 654-657 (2009).