Search results for "Plasmonics"
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Plasmonic nanostructures through DNA-assisted lithography
2018
DALI combines DNA origami with conventional top-down fabrication for creating designer high-resolution plasmonic nanostructures.
ELECTRON-FED OPTICAL ANTENNA
2019
Nanoscale electronics and photonics are among the most promising research areas providing functional nanocomponents for data transfer and signal processing. By adopting metal-based optical antennas as a disruptive technological vehicle, we demonstrate that an optical antenna coupled to a tunnel junction can be interfaced to create an electronically driven self-emitting unit. This nanoscale plasmonic transmitter operates by injecting electrons in a contacted tunneling antenna feedgap. Under certain operating conditions, we show that the device radiates a broadband light spectrum which can be related to a thermal like spectrum. We propose a model based upon the spontaneous emission of hot ele…
Applications of DNA self-assembled structures in nanoelectronics and plasmonics
2018
In this thesis, the potential applications of DNA self-assembled structures were explored in both nanoelectronics and plasmonics. The works can be divided into two parts: electrical characterization of unmodified multilayered DNA origami and DNA-gold-nanoparticle conjugates after they were trapped between gold nanoelectrodes by dielectrophoresis, and the development of a novel fabrication method using DNA origami as a template for smooth, high resolution metallic nanostructures as well as optical characterization of them. One of the biggest challenges in self-assembled nanoelectronic devices is to connect them to macroscopic circuits. Dielectrophoretic (DEP) trapping has been used extensivel…
Reversible Strong Coupling in Silver Nanoparticle Arrays Using Photochromic Molecules
2012
International audience; In this Letter, we demonstrate a reversible strong coupling regime between a dipolar surface plasmon resonance and a molecular excited state. This reversible state is experimentally observed on silver nanoparticle arrays embedded in a polymer film containing photochromic molecules. Extinction measurements reveal a clear Rabi splitting of 294 meV, corresponding to ∼13% of the molecular transition energy. We derived an analytical model to confirm our observations, and we emphasize the importance of spectrally matching the polymer absorption with the plasmonic resonance to observe coupled states. Finally, the reversibility of this coupling is illustrated by cycling the …
Plasmonic Stripes in Aqueous Environment Co-Integrated With Si3N4 Photonics
2018
We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and the experimental characterization of gold-based plasmonic stripes butt-coupled with low-pressure-chemical-vapor-deposition (LPCVD)-based Si3N4 waveguides for the excitation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) modes in aqueous environment. Plasmonic gold stripes, in aqueous environment, with cross-sectional dimensions of 100 nm × 7 μm were interfaced with 360 nm × 800 nm Si3N4 waveguides cladded with low-temperature-oxide, exploiting linear photonic tapers with appropriate vertical (VO) and longitudinal (LO) offsets between the plasmonic and photonic waveguide facets. An interface insertion loss of 2.3 ± 0.3 dB and a plas…
Design of anisotropic nanostructures for light control
2018
El rápido avance en métodos de micro- y nanofabricación, tanto teórica como experimentalmente, han hecho posible a día de hoy que podamos controlar el flujo de luz con una precisión sin precedentes. Los metamateriales y las metasuperficies son nanoestructuras compuestas a partir de celdas unidad dise˜nadas, de forma que permitan manipular la luz con una respuesta estipulada. Como resultado de esto, los metamateriales han proporcinoado un gran número de posibles aplicaciones nuevas que antes eran inconcebibles. En esta Tesis Doctoral nos hemos centrado en el uso de estos metamateriales excepcionales para conseguir, específicamente, partículas indetectables y también para controlar el modelad…
Manufacturing of graphene nanodisks for surface plasmon measurements
2017
Grafeeni on ilmestynyt tieteen rintamalle kovalla ryminällä vasta viimeisen 13 vuoden aikana, mutta on jo nyt yksi mielenkiintoisimmista tutkimuskohteista, jolla voisi olla lukuisia sovelluksia tulevaisuudessa. Grafeeni on ilmestynyt myös plasmoniikan tutkimuskohteeksi sen lukuisten ainutlaatuisten sähköisten ja optisten ominaisuuksien takia ja sen ominaisuuksien muokattavuuden helppouden takia. Grafeeni voisi mahdollisesti korvata yleisesti käytössä olleet jalot metallit kuten kullan ja hopean pintaplasmonien tuotossa ja tutkimuksessa ja voisi johtaa uudenlaiseen valon kontrollointiin nanoskaalassa ja optiikan ja elektroniikan yhdistämiseen tässä pienessä mittakaavassa. Tässä työssä tavoit…
Plasma polymer films and gold nanoparticles: coupling of properties to design a biosensor
The present investigation deals with the functionalization of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) with primary amine-based plasma polymer films (NH2-PPF), to improve their properties for bioanalytical applications. Cyclopropylamine (CPA) plasma polymerization, in pulsed and continuous wave radio frequency discharges, was employed to growth CPA amino-based PPFs coatings (18 nm) onto Au NPs of 12 nm of diameter deposited on glass and silicon substrates. A multi-technique investigation, based on FT-IR and XPS spectroscopies, AFM and SEM microscopies and Tof-SIMS spectrometry, revealed peculiar features of the CPA PPFs. In particular, by FT-IR it was possible to obtain an overview about the rich chemis…
Localized surface plasmon resonance in silver nanoparticles: Atomistic first-principles time-dependent density-functional theory calculations
2015
We observe using ab initio methods that localized surface plasmon resonances in icosahedral silver nanoparticles enter the asymptotic region already between diameters of 1 and 2 nm, converging close to the classical quasistatic limit around 3.4 eV. We base the observation on time-dependent density-functional theory simulations of the icosahedral silver clusters Ag$_{55}$ (1.06 nm), Ag$_{147}$ (1.60 nm), Ag$_{309}$ (2.14 nm), and Ag$_{561}$ (2.68 nm). The simulation method combines the adiabatic GLLB-SC exchange-correlation functional with real time propagation in an atomic orbital basis set using the projector-augmented wave method. The method has been implemented for the electron structure…
Optical properties of conductive carbon-based nanomaterials
2016
The interaction of light with carbon nanomaterials is the main focus of this thesis. I explore several nanostructured systems involving different allotropes of carbon, and characterize them both electrically, if applicable, and optically. Special attention is paid to search for plasmon-like excitations on the systems, or utilizing surface plasmons on characterization. The first objective is to achieve control of carbon nanotube (CNT) conductivity with surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which resulted in the first CNT field-effect transistor (FET) that can be gated definitively with SPPs. The second objective is the investigation of optical properties of various thin carbon-based molecular n…