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Title: Optical Control of Fluorescence through plasmonic eigenmode extinction

Abstract

We introduce the concept of optical control of the fluorescence yield of CdSe quantum dots through plasmon-induced structural changes in random semicontinuous nanostructured gold films. We demonstrate that the wavelength- and polarization dependent coupling between quantum dots and the semicontinuous films, and thus the fluorescent emission spectrum, can be controlled and significantly increased through the optical extinction of a selective band of eigenmodes in the films. This optical method of effecting controlled changes in the metal nanostructure allows for versatile functionality in a single sample and opens a pathway to in situ control over the fluorescence spectrum.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  4. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China). International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1185351
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Xu, Xiaoying, Lin, Shih-Che, Li, Quanshui, Zhang, Zhili, Ivanov, Ilia N., Li, Yuan, Wang, Wenbin, Gu, Baohua, Zhang, Zhenyu, Hsueh, C. H., Snijders, Paul C., and Seal, Katyayani. Optical Control of Fluorescence through plasmonic eigenmode extinction. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1038/srep09911.
Xu, Xiaoying, Lin, Shih-Che, Li, Quanshui, Zhang, Zhili, Ivanov, Ilia N., Li, Yuan, Wang, Wenbin, Gu, Baohua, Zhang, Zhenyu, Hsueh, C. H., Snijders, Paul C., & Seal, Katyayani. Optical Control of Fluorescence through plasmonic eigenmode extinction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09911
Xu, Xiaoying, Lin, Shih-Che, Li, Quanshui, Zhang, Zhili, Ivanov, Ilia N., Li, Yuan, Wang, Wenbin, Gu, Baohua, Zhang, Zhenyu, Hsueh, C. H., Snijders, Paul C., and Seal, Katyayani. 2015. "Optical Control of Fluorescence through plasmonic eigenmode extinction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09911. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185351.
@article{osti_1185351,
title = {Optical Control of Fluorescence through plasmonic eigenmode extinction},
author = {Xu, Xiaoying and Lin, Shih-Che and Li, Quanshui and Zhang, Zhili and Ivanov, Ilia N. and Li, Yuan and Wang, Wenbin and Gu, Baohua and Zhang, Zhenyu and Hsueh, C. H. and Snijders, Paul C. and Seal, Katyayani},
abstractNote = {We introduce the concept of optical control of the fluorescence yield of CdSe quantum dots through plasmon-induced structural changes in random semicontinuous nanostructured gold films. We demonstrate that the wavelength- and polarization dependent coupling between quantum dots and the semicontinuous films, and thus the fluorescent emission spectrum, can be controlled and significantly increased through the optical extinction of a selective band of eigenmodes in the films. This optical method of effecting controlled changes in the metal nanostructure allows for versatile functionality in a single sample and opens a pathway to in situ control over the fluorescence spectrum.},
doi = {10.1038/srep09911},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1185351}, journal = {Scientific Reports},
issn = {2045-2322},
number = ,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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