Large Transient Optical Modulation of Epsilon-Near-Zero Colloidal Nanocrystals

Diroll, Benjamin T.; Guo, Peijun; Chang, Robert P. H.; Schaller, Richard D.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b05116

Title: Large Transient Optical Modulation of Epsilon-Near-Zero Colloidal Nanocrystals

Journal Article · Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05116· OSTI ID:1416152

Diroll, Benjamin T. ^[1]; Guo, Peijun ^[2]; Chang, Robert P. H. ^[2]; Schaller, Richard D. ^[3]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)

Here, epsilon-near-zero materials may be synthesized as colloidal nanocrystals which display large magnitude subpicosecond switching of infrared localized surface plasmon resonances. Such nanocrystals offer a solution-processable, scalable source of tunable metamaterials compatible with arbitrary substrates. Under intraband excitation, these nanocrystals display a red-shift of the plasmon feature arising from the low electron heat capacities and conduction band nonparabolicity of the oxide. Under interband pumping, they show in an ultrafast blueshift of the plasmon resonance due to transient increases in the carrier density. Combined with their high-quality factor, large changes in relative transmittance (+86%) and index of refraction (+85%) at modest control fluences (<5 mJ/cm²) suggest that these materials offer great promise for all-optical switching, wavefront engineering, and beam steering operating at terahertz switching frequencies.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: Northwestern University, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NU-MRSEC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1416152

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 10, Issue 11; ISSN 1936-0851

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