Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in shape- and composition-controlled gold–silver bimetallic nanostructures

Zarick, Holly F.; Boulesbaa, Abdelaziz; Talbert, Eric M.; Puretzky, Alexander A.; Geohegan, David B.; Bardhan, Rizia

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b12669

Title: Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in shape- and composition-controlled gold–silver bimetallic nanostructures

Journal Article · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b12669· OSTI ID:1350925

Zarick, Holly F. ^[1]; Boulesbaa, Abdelaziz ^[2]; Talbert, Eric M. ^[1]; Puretzky, Alexander A. ^[2]; Geohegan, David B. ^[2]; Bardhan, Rizia ^[1]

Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

In this paper, we have examined the ultrafast dynamics of shape- and composition-controlled bimetallic Au/Ag core/shell nanostructures with transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) as a function of Ag layer thickness (0–15 nm) and pump excitation fluence (50–500 nJ/pulse). Our synthesis approach generated both bimetallic nanocubes and nanopyramids with distinct dipolar plasmon resonances and plasmon dephasing behavior at the resonance. Lifetimes obtained from TAS at low powers (50 nJ/pulse) demonstrated minimal dependence on the Ag layer thickness, whereas at high power (500 nJ/pulse) a rise in electron–phonon coupling lifetime (τ₁) was observed with increasing Ag shell thickness for both nanocubes and nanopyramids. This is attributable to the stronger absorption of the 400 nm pump pulse with higher Ag content, which induced higher electron temperatures. The phonon–phonon scattering lifetime (τ₂) also rises with increasing Ag layer, contributed both by the increasing size of the Au/Ag nanostructures as well as by surface chemistry effects. Further, we observed that even the thinnest, 2 nm, Ag shell strongly impacts both τ₁ and τ₂ at high power despite minimal change in overall size, indicating that the nanostructure composition also strongly impacts the thermalization temperature following absorption of 400 nm light. We also observed a shape-dependent trend at high power, where τ₂ increased for the nanopyramids with increasing Ag shell thickness and nanostructure size, but bimetallic nanocubes demonstrated an unexpected decrease in τ₂ for the thickest, 15 nm, Ag shell. This was attributed to the larger number of corners and edges in the nanocubes relative to the nanopyramids.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1350925

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 121, Issue 8; ISSN 1932-7447

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