Cole Robin M, Mahajan Sumeet, Bartlett Phil N, Baumberg Jeremy J
NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Opt Express. 2009 Aug 3;17(16):13298-308. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.013298.
Nanoscale voids (or 'anti-nanoparticles') embedded in gold films possess plasmon modes with a strong field component at the cavity entrance, radically different to nanoparticle plasmon modes. By creating Ni/Au hybrid rim nanostructures we show how selective coupling to void plasmons provides strong electric field enhancements leading to large surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals from molecules adsorbed on the nanovoid film. Since the rim plasmon modes are relatively independent of the supporting void material these results pave the way for hybrid nanovoid structures which combine plasmonic and catalytic properties of the constituent materials in a controllable and reproducible way.
嵌入金膜中的纳米级空隙(或“反纳米粒子”)具有等离子体激元模式,在腔体入口处有很强的场分量,这与纳米粒子的等离子体激元模式截然不同。通过创建镍/金混合边缘纳米结构,我们展示了与空隙等离子体激元的选择性耦合如何提供强大的电场增强,从而使吸附在纳米空隙膜上的分子产生大的表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)信号。由于边缘等离子体激元模式相对独立于支撑空隙材料,这些结果为混合纳米空隙结构铺平了道路,这种结构能够以可控且可重复的方式结合构成材料的等离子体和催化特性。