Infrared plasmonics: STEM-EELS characterization of Fabry-Pérot resonance damping in gold nanowires
Abstract
Materials possessing strong midinfrared responses are of current interest because of their potential application to long-wavelength metamaterials, photonic devices, molecular detection, and catalysis. In this work, we utilize high-energy resolution (80 cm-1, 10 meV) electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a monochromated and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to resolve multipolar surface plasmon resonances (SPRs), sometimes called Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonances, in gold nanowires with mode energies spanning from ~1000 to 8000 cm-1. STEM-EELS provides access to these mid- to near-IR responses in a single acquisition, avoiding the difficulties inherent in obtaining the same data using near-field optical techniques. The experimentally measured FP resonance energies and linewidths, together with analytical modeling and full-wave numerical electrodynamics simulations, provide a comprehensive picture of the radiative and intrinsic contributions to the total damping rates. We find some FP modes with dephasing times >60fs, which is almost twice the longest previously reported plasmon dephasing time for individual Au nanoparticles in the infrared. The long dephasing times and the broad tunability of the FP resonance energies throughout the infrared region suggest additional opportunities for harnessing infrared plasmonic energy before dephasing occurs.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[2];
[2];
[3];
[2];
[4];
[2];
[5]
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1598862
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1907177
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018040; SC0018169; DMR-1709275; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Wu, Yueying, Hu, Zhongwei, Kong, Xiang-Tian, Idrobo, Juan Carlos, Nixon, Austin G., Rack, Philip D., Masiello, David J., and Camden, Jon P. Infrared plasmonics: STEM-EELS characterization of Fabry-Pérot resonance damping in gold nanowires. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409.
Wu, Yueying, Hu, Zhongwei, Kong, Xiang-Tian, Idrobo, Juan Carlos, Nixon, Austin G., Rack, Philip D., Masiello, David J., & Camden, Jon P. Infrared plasmonics: STEM-EELS characterization of Fabry-Pérot resonance damping in gold nanowires. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409
Wu, Yueying, Hu, Zhongwei, Kong, Xiang-Tian, Idrobo, Juan Carlos, Nixon, Austin G., Rack, Philip D., Masiello, David J., and Camden, Jon P. Mon .
"Infrared plasmonics: STEM-EELS characterization of Fabry-Pérot resonance damping in gold nanowires". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1598862.
@article{osti_1598862,
title = {Infrared plasmonics: STEM-EELS characterization of Fabry-Pérot resonance damping in gold nanowires},
author = {Wu, Yueying and Hu, Zhongwei and Kong, Xiang-Tian and Idrobo, Juan Carlos and Nixon, Austin G. and Rack, Philip D. and Masiello, David J. and Camden, Jon P.},
abstractNote = {Materials possessing strong midinfrared responses are of current interest because of their potential application to long-wavelength metamaterials, photonic devices, molecular detection, and catalysis. In this work, we utilize high-energy resolution (80 cm-1, 10 meV) electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a monochromated and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to resolve multipolar surface plasmon resonances (SPRs), sometimes called Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonances, in gold nanowires with mode energies spanning from ~1000 to 8000 cm-1. STEM-EELS provides access to these mid- to near-IR responses in a single acquisition, avoiding the difficulties inherent in obtaining the same data using near-field optical techniques. The experimentally measured FP resonance energies and linewidths, together with analytical modeling and full-wave numerical electrodynamics simulations, provide a comprehensive picture of the radiative and intrinsic contributions to the total damping rates. We find some FP modes with dephasing times >60fs, which is almost twice the longest previously reported plasmon dephasing time for individual Au nanoparticles in the infrared. The long dephasing times and the broad tunability of the FP resonance energies throughout the infrared region suggest additional opportunities for harnessing infrared plasmonic energy before dephasing occurs.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.085409},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 8,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Cited by: 10 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Exploring the capabilities of monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy in the infrared regime
journal, April 2018
- Hachtel, Jordan A.; Lupini, Andrew R.; Idrobo, Juan Carlos
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Issue 1
Surface plasmon optical antennae in the infrared region with high resonant efficiency and frequency selectivity
journal, January 2016
- Ueno, Kosei; Sun, Quan; Mino, Masahiro
- Optics Express, Vol. 24, Issue 16
Nanoscale probing of resonant photonic modes in dielectric nanoparticles with focused electron beams
journal, April 2019
- Liu, Qianlang; Quillin, Steven C.; Masiello, David J.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 99, Issue 16
Identification of site-specific isotopic labels by vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope
journal, January 2019
- Hachtel, Jordan A.; Huang, Jingsong; Popovs, Ilja
- Science, Vol. 363, Issue 6426
Combined Tight-Binding and Numerical Electrodynamics Understanding of the STEM/EELS Magneto-optical Responses of Aromatic Plasmon-Supporting Metal Oligomers
journal, September 2014
- Cherqui, Charles; Bigelow, Nicholas W.; Vaschillo, Alex
- ACS Photonics, Vol. 1, Issue 10
Plasmonic Response of Bent Silver Nanowires for Nanophotonic Subwavelength Waveguiding
journal, February 2013
- Rossouw, David; Botton, Gianluigi A.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 6
Review of Some Interesting Surface Plasmon Resonance-enhanced Properties of Noble Metal Nanoparticles and Their Applications to Biosystems
journal, July 2007
- Jain, Prashant K.; Huang, Xiaohua; El-Sayed, Ivan H.
- Plasmonics, Vol. 2, Issue 3
Surface plasmon modes of a single silver nanorod: an electron energy loss study
journal, January 2011
- Nicoletti, Olivia; Wubs, Martijn; Mortensen, N. Asger
- Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 16
Lifetime and dephasing of plasmons in Ag nanoparticles
conference, December 2001
- Scharte, Mathias; Porath, Ron; Ohms, Torsten
- International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, SPIE Proceedings
Silver Nanowires as Surface Plasmon Resonators
journal, December 2005
- Ditlbacher, Harald; Hohenau, Andreas; Wagner, Dieter
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 25
Plasmonic mid-infrared third harmonic generation in germanium nanoantennas
journal, December 2018
- Fischer, Marco P.; Riede, Aaron; Gallacher, Kevin
- Light: Science & Applications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Spatially Mapping Energy Transfer from Single Plasmonic Particles to Semiconductor Substrates via STEM/EELS
journal, April 2015
- Li, Guoliang; Cherqui, Charles; Bigelow, Nicholas W.
- Nano Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 5
Low loss silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared
journal, January 2011
- Mashanovich, Goran Z.; Milošević, Milan M.; Nedeljkovic, Milos
- Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 8
Short Range Plasmon Resonators Probed by Photoemission Electron Microscopy
journal, March 2008
- Douillard, Ludovic; Charra, Fabrice; Korczak, Zbigniew
- Nano Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 3
Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
journal, October 1999
- Dunn, Robert C.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 99, Issue 10
Propagation Lengths and Group Velocities of Plasmons in Chemically Synthesized Gold and Silver Nanowires
journal, December 2011
- Wild, Barbara; Cao, Lina; Sun, Yugang
- ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 1
High-Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy of Multipolar Plasmonic Resonances in Aluminum Nanoantennas
journal, September 2014
- Martin, Jérôme; Kociak, Mathieu; Mahfoud, Zackaria
- Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 10
Radiation Damping in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
journal, April 1982
- Wokaun, A.; Gordon, J. P.; Liao, P. F.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 48, Issue 14
Surface Plasmon Damping Quantified with an Electron Nanoprobe
journal, February 2013
- Bosman, Michel; Ye, Enyi; Tan, Shu Fen
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1
Probing Nanoparticle Plasmons with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
journal, December 2017
- Wu, Yueying; Li, Guoliang; Camden, Jon P.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 118, Issue 6
Spectroscopic properties of molecules interacting with small dielectric particles
journal, August 1981
- Gersten, Joel; Nitzan, Abraham
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 75, Issue 3
Plasmonic Enhancement of Vibrational Excitations in the Infrared
journal, May 2013
- Neubrech, F.; Pucci, A.
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 19, Issue 3
Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations
journal, January 1994
- Draine, Bruce T.; Flatau, Piotr J.
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 11, Issue 4
Surface-Enhanced Molecular Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
journal, April 2018
- Konečná, Andrea; Neuman, Tomáš; Aizpurua, Javier
- ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 5
Spectral Properties and Relaxation Dynamics of Surface Plasmon Electronic Oscillations in Gold and Silver Nanodots and Nanorods
journal, October 1999
- Link, Stephan; El-Sayed, Mostafa A.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 103, Issue 40
Single Particle Plasmon Spectroscopy of Silver Nanowires and Gold Nanorods
journal, October 2008
- NʼGom, Moussa; Ringnalda, Jan; Mansfield, John F.
- Nano Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 10
Reversible Shape and Plasmon Tuning in Hollow AgAu Nanorods
journal, October 2016
- Yazdi, Sadegh; Daniel, Josée R.; Large, Nicolas
- Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 11
Chemical Identification of Single Ultrafine Particles Using Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption
journal, January 2019
- Huck, Christian; Tzschoppe, Michael; Semenyshyn, Rostyslav
- Physical Review Applied, Vol. 11, Issue 1
Scattering and Absorption of Light by Nonspherical Dielectric Grains
journal, December 1973
- Purcell, Edward M.; Pennypacker, Carlton R.
- The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 186
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Study of the Full Plasmonic Spectrum of Self-Assembled Au–Ag Alloy Nanoparticles: Unraveling Size, Composition, and Substrate Effects
journal, December 2015
- Wu, Yueying; Li, Guoliang; Cherqui, Charles
- ACS Photonics, Vol. 3, Issue 1
Generating and Manipulating High Quality Factors of Fano Resonance in Nanoring Resonator by Stacking a Half Nanoring
journal, November 2017
- Qin, Meng; Wang, Lingling; Zhai, Xiang
- Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 1
Examining Substrate-Induced Plasmon Mode Splitting and Localization in Truncated Silver Nanospheres with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
journal, June 2015
- Li, Guoliang; Cherqui, Charles; Wu, Yueying
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, Issue 13
Quantitative Determination of the Size Dependence of Surface Plasmon Resonance Damping in Single Ag@SiO 2 Nanoparticles
journal, October 2009
- Baida, H.; Billaud, P.; Marhaba, S.
- Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 10
Extremely large extinction efficiency and field enhancement in terahertz resonant dipole nanoantennas
journal, January 2011
- Razzari, Luca; Toma, Andrea; Shalaby, Mostafa
- Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 27
Characterization of the Electron- and Photon-Driven Plasmonic Excitations of Metal Nanorods
journal, July 2012
- Bigelow, Nicholas W.; Vaschillo, Alex; Iberi, Vighter
- ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 8
Plasmonics: Merging Photonics and Electronics at Nanoscale Dimensions
journal, January 2006
- Ozbay, E.
- Science, Vol. 311, Issue 5758
Mid-infrared optical properties of thin films of aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, aluminum nitride, and silicon nitride
journal, January 2012
- Kischkat, Jan; Peters, Sven; Gruska, Bernd
- Applied Optics, Vol. 51, Issue 28
Signatures of Fano Interferences in the Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and Cathodoluminescence of Symmetry-Broken Nanorod Dimers
journal, April 2013
- Bigelow, Nicholas W.; Vaschillo, Alex; Camden, Jon P.
- ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 5
Drastic Reduction of Plasmon Damping in Gold Nanorods
journal, January 2002
- Sönnichsen, C.; Franzl, T.; Wilk, T.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88, Issue 7
Optical characterization of single plasmonic nanoparticles
journal, January 2015
- Olson, Jana; Dominguez-Medina, Sergio; Hoggard, Anneli
- Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 44, Issue 1
Comparative Analysis of Metals and Alternative Infrared Plasmonic Materials
journal, October 2017
- Hsieh, Wen Ting; Wu, Pin Chieh; Khurgin, Jacob B.
- ACS Photonics, Vol. 5, Issue 7
Resonant Coupling between Molecular Vibrations and Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Faceted Metal Oxide Nanocrystals
journal, March 2017
- Agrawal, Ankit; Singh, Ajay; Yazdi, Sadegh
- Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 4
Vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope
journal, October 2014
- Krivanek, Ondrej L.; Lovejoy, Tracy C.; Dellby, Niklas
- Nature, Vol. 514, Issue 7521
Optical nanorod antennas as dispersive one-dimensional Fabry–Pérot resonators for surface plasmons
journal, November 2009
- Cubukcu, Ertugrul; Capasso, Federico
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 20
Review of mid-infrared plasmonic materials
journal, January 2015
- Zhong, Yujun; Malagari, Shyamala Devi; Hamilton, Travis
- Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Link between Cathodoluminescence and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and the Radiative and Full Electromagnetic Local Density of States
journal, October 2015
- Losquin, Arthur; Kociak, Mathieu
- ACS Photonics, Vol. 2, Issue 11
Monochromated STEM with a 30 meV-wide, atom-sized electron probe
journal, January 2013
- Krivanek, Ondrej L.; Lovejoy, Tracy C.; Dellby, Niklas
- Microscopy, Vol. 62, Issue 1
Electron-beam mapping of plasmon resonances in electromagnetically interacting gold nanorods
journal, September 2009
- N’Gom, Moussa; Li, Shuzhou; Schatz, George
- Physical Review B, Vol. 80, Issue 11
Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Pointed Probes
journal, May 2006
- Novotny, Lukas; Stranick, Stephan J.
- Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 57, Issue 1
Damping rates of surface plasmons for particles of size from nano- to micrometers; reduction of the nonradiative decay
journal, January 2013
- Kolwas, K.; Derkachova, A.
- Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 114
Multipolar Plasmonic Resonances in Silver Nanowire Antennas Imaged with a Subnanometer Electron Probe
journal, April 2011
- Rossouw, D.; Couillard, M.; Vickery, J.
- Nano Letters, Vol. 11, Issue 4
Surface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy Using Resonant Nanoantennas
journal, February 2017
- Neubrech, Frank; Huck, Christian; Weber, Ksenia
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 117, Issue 7
Electron-beam spectroscopy for nanophotonics
journal, July 2019
- Polman, Albert; Kociak, Mathieu; García de Abajo, F. Javier
- Nature Materials, Vol. 18, Issue 11
Large single-mode rib waveguides in GeSi-Si and Si-on-SiO/sub 2/
journal, January 1991
- Soref, R. A.; Schmidtchen, J.; Petermann, K.
- IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 27, Issue 8
Probing Bright and Dark Surface-Plasmon Modes in Individual and Coupled Noble Metal Nanoparticles Using an Electron Beam
journal, January 2009
- Chu, Ming-Wen; Myroshnychenko, Viktor; Chen, Cheng Hsuan
- Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Depolarization field of spheroidal particles
journal, January 2009
- Moroz, Alexander
- Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 26, Issue 3
Optical dielectric function of gold
journal, December 2012
- Olmon, Robert L.; Slovick, Brian; Johnson, Timothy W.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Issue 23
Direct Observation of Plasmonic Modes in Au Nanowires Using High-Resolution Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy
journal, September 2007
- Vesseur, Ernst Jan R.; de Waele, René; Kuttge, Martin
- Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 9
Surface-Plasmon Resonances in Single Metallic Nanoparticles
journal, May 1998
- Klar, T.; Perner, M.; Grosse, S.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 80, Issue 19
Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances: A Review of Properties and Applications
journal, June 2018
- Kravets, V. G.; Kabashin, A. V.; Barnes, W. L.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 118, Issue 12
Multipolar Nanocube Plasmon Mode-Mixing in Finite Substrates
journal, January 2018
- Cherqui, Charles; Li, Guoliang; Busche, Jacob A.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 3
A Review of Surface Plasmon Resonance-Enhanced Photocatalysis
journal, October 2012
- Hou, Wenbo; Cronin, Stephen B.
- Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 23, Issue 13, p. 1612-1619
Resonance-Rayleigh Scattering and Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy of Silver Nanocubes
journal, May 2014
- Iberi, Vighter; Bigelow, Nicholas W.; Mirsaleh-Kohan, Nasrin
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 118, Issue 19
Exploitation of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance
journal, October 2004
- Hutter, E.; Fendler, J. H.
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 19, p. 1685-1706
Direct measurement of dispersion relation for surface plasmon-polaritons on silver nanoantennas
journal, November 2013
- Saito, Hikaru; Kurata, Hiroki
- Microscopy, Vol. 63, Issue 2
Width of cluster plasmon resonances: Bulk dielectric functions and chemical interface damping
journal, December 1993
- Hövel, H.; Fritz, S.; Hilger, A.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 48, Issue 24