Understanding How Acoustic Vibrations Modulate the Optical Response of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles

Ahmed, Aftab; Pelton, Matthew; Guest, Jeffrey R.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b04789

Title: Understanding How Acoustic Vibrations Modulate the Optical Response of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles

Journal Article · Thu Aug 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b04789· OSTI ID:1405321

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California State Univ. Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials

Measurements of acoustic vibrations in nanoparticles provide a unique opportunity to study mechanical phenomena at nanometer length scales and picosecond time scales. Vibrations in noble-metal nanoparticles have attracted particular attention, because they couple to plasmon resonances in the nanoparticles, leading to strong modulation of optical absorption and scattering. There are three mechanisms that transduce the mechanical oscillations into changes in the plasmon resonance: (1) changes in polarizability due to changes in the nanoparticle geometry; (2) changes in electron density due to changes in the nanoparticle volume and (3) changes in the interband transition energies due to compression/expansion of the nanoparticle (deformation potential). These mechanisms have been studied in the past to explain the origin of the experimental signals; however, a thorough quantitative connection between the coupling of phonon and plasmon modes and separate contribution of each coupling mechanism has not yet been made. Here, we present a numerical method to quantitatively determine the coupling between vibrational and plasmon modes in noble-metal nanoparticles of arbitrary geometries, and apply it to spheres, shells, rods, and cubes in the context of time resolved measurements. We separately determine the parts of the optical response that are due to shape changes, changes in electron density, and changes in deformation potential (DP). We further show that coupling is in general strongest when the regions of largest electric field (plasmon mode) and largest displacement (phonon mode) overlap. Lastly, these results clarify reported experimental results, and should help guide future experiments and potential applications.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1405321

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 9; ISSN 1936-0851

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Country of Publication:: United States

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