Hybrid plasmonic Au–TiN vertically aligned nanocomposites: a nanoscale platform towards tunable optical sensing

Wang, Xuejing; Jian, Jie; Diaz-Amaya, Susana; Kumah, Cindy E.; Lu, Ping; Huang, Jijie; Lim, Daw Gen; Pol, Vilas G.; Youngblood, Jeffrey P.; Boltasseva, Alexandra; Stanciu, Lia A.; O'Carroll, Deirdre M.; Zhang, Xinghang; Wang, Haiyan

doi:10.1039/c8na00306h

Title: Hybrid plasmonic Au–TiN vertically aligned nanocomposites: a nanoscale platform towards tunable optical sensing

Journal Article · 27 November 2019 · Nanoscale Advances

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c8na00306h · OSTI ID:1542142

Wang, Xuejing ^[1]; Jian, Jie ^[1]; Diaz-Amaya, Susana ^[1]; Kumah, Cindy E. ^[2]; Lu, Ping ^[3]; Huang, Jijie ^[1]; Lim, Daw Gen ^[1];

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^[1]; Boltasseva, Alexandra ^[5]; Stanciu, Lia A. ^[1];

^[2]; Zhang, Xinghang ^[1];

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Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Materials Engineering
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Materials Engineering and Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Tunable plasmonic structure at the nanometer scale presents enormous opportunities for various photonic devices. In this work, we present a hybrid plasmonic thin film platform: i.e., a vertically aligned Au nanopillar array grown inside a TiN matrix with controllable Au pillar density. Compared to single phase plasmonic materials, the presented tunable hybrid nanostructures attain optical flexibility including gradual tuning and anisotropic behavior of the complex dielectric function, resonant peak shifting and change of surface plasmon resonances (SPRs) in the UV-visible range, all confirmed by numerical simulations. Lastly, the tailorable hybrid platform also demonstrates enhanced surface plasmon Raman response for Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and photoluminescence (PL) measurements, and presents great potentials as designable hybrid platforms for tunable optical-based chemical sensing applications.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1542142

Report Number(s):: SAND-2019-7288J; NAADAI; 676846

Journal Information:: Nanoscale Advances, Vol. 1, Issue 3; ISSN 2516-0230

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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