Molecular Emission near Metal Interfaces: The Polaritonic Regime

Yuen-Zhou, Joel; Saikin, Semion K.; Menon, Vinod M.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02980

Title: Molecular Emission near Metal Interfaces: The Polaritonic Regime

Journal Article · Mon Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02980· OSTI ID:1566535

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Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Kazan Federal Univ., Kazan (Russia). Inst. of Physics
City Univ. of New York (CUNY), NY (United States)

The strong coupling of a dense layer of molecular excitons with surface-plasmon modes in a metal gives rise to polaritons (hybrid light–matter states) called plexcitons. Surface plasmons cannot directly emit into (or be excited by) free-space photons due to the fact that energy and momentum conservation cannot be simultaneously satisfied in photoluminescence. Most plexcitons are also formally nonemissive, even though they can radiate via molecules upon localization due to disorder and decoherence. However, a fraction of them are bright even in the presence of such deleterious processes. Here in this Letter, we theoretically discuss the superradiant emission properties of these bright plexcitons, which belong to the upper energy branch and reveal huge photoluminescence enhancements compared to bare excitons, due to near-divergences in the density of photonic modes available to them. Our study generalizes the well-known problem of molecular emission next to a metal interface to the polaritonic regime.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); City Univ. of New York (CUNY), NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001088; SC0017760

OSTI ID:: 1566535

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 22; ISSN 1948-7185

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