Plasmonic Landau damping in active environments
Abstract
Optical manipulation of charge on the nanoscale is of fundamental importance to an array of proposed technologies from selective photocatalysis to nanophotonics. Open plasmonic systems where collective electron oscillations release energy and charge to their environments offer a potential means to this end as plasmons can rapidly decay into energetic electron-hole pairs; however, isolating this decay from other plasmon-environment interactions remains a challenge. Here we introduce an analytic theory of noble-metal nanoparticles that quantitatively models plasmon decay into electron-hole pairs, demonstrates that this decay depends significantly on the nanoparticle's dielectric environment, and disentangles this effect from competing decay pathways. Using our method to incorporate embedding material and substrate effects on plasmon-electron interaction, we show that predictions from the model agree with four separate experiments. Finally, examination of coupled nanoparticle-emitter systems further shows that the hybridized in-phase mode more efficiently decays to photons whereas the out-of-phase mode more efficiently decays to electron-hole pairs, offering a strategy to tailor open plasmonic systems for charge manipulation.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1597445
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1425530; OSTI ID: 1907182
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018040; DGE-1256082; CHE-1664684
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; electronic structure; plasmons; quasiparticles & collective excitations; nanoparticles
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Thakkar, Niket, Montoni, Nicholas P., Cherqui, Charles, and Masiello, David J. Plasmonic Landau damping in active environments. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.121403.
Thakkar, Niket, Montoni, Nicholas P., Cherqui, Charles, & Masiello, David J. Plasmonic Landau damping in active environments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.121403
Thakkar, Niket, Montoni, Nicholas P., Cherqui, Charles, and Masiello, David J. Mon .
"Plasmonic Landau damping in active environments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.121403. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597445.
@article{osti_1597445,
title = {Plasmonic Landau damping in active environments},
author = {Thakkar, Niket and Montoni, Nicholas P. and Cherqui, Charles and Masiello, David J.},
abstractNote = {Optical manipulation of charge on the nanoscale is of fundamental importance to an array of proposed technologies from selective photocatalysis to nanophotonics. Open plasmonic systems where collective electron oscillations release energy and charge to their environments offer a potential means to this end as plasmons can rapidly decay into energetic electron-hole pairs; however, isolating this decay from other plasmon-environment interactions remains a challenge. Here we introduce an analytic theory of noble-metal nanoparticles that quantitatively models plasmon decay into electron-hole pairs, demonstrates that this decay depends significantly on the nanoparticle's dielectric environment, and disentangles this effect from competing decay pathways. Using our method to incorporate embedding material and substrate effects on plasmon-electron interaction, we show that predictions from the model agree with four separate experiments. Finally, examination of coupled nanoparticle-emitter systems further shows that the hybridized in-phase mode more efficiently decays to photons whereas the out-of-phase mode more efficiently decays to electron-hole pairs, offering a strategy to tailor open plasmonic systems for charge manipulation.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.97.121403},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 12,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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