Low-temperature plasmonics of metallic nanostructures

Bouillard, Jean Sebastien G.; Dickson, Wayne; O’Connor, Daniel P.; Wurtz, Gregory A.; Zayats, Anatoly V.

Abstract

The requirements for spatial and temporal manipulation of electromagnetic fields on the nanoscale have recently resulted in an ever-increasing use of plasmonics for achieving various functionalities with superior performance to those available from conventional photonics. For these applications, ohmic losses resulting from free-electron scattering in the metal is one major limitation for the performance of plasmonic structures. In the low-frequency regime, ohmic losses can be reduced at low temperatures. In this work, we study the effect of temperature on the optical response of different plasmonic nanostructures and show that the extinction of a plasmonic nanorod metamaterial can be efficiently controlled with temperature with transmission changes by nearly a factor of 10 between room and liquid nitrogen temperatures, while temperature effects in plasmonic crystals are relatively weak (transmission changes only up to 20%). Because of the different nature of the plasmonic interactions in these types of plasmonic nanostructures, drastically differing responses (increased or decreased extinction) to temperature change were observed despite identical variations of the metal's permittivity. © 2012 American Chemical Society.

Citation

Bouillard, J. S. G., Dickson, W., O’Connor, D. P., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V. (2012). Low-temperature plasmonics of metallic nanostructures. Nano Letters, 12(3), 1561-1565. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl204420s

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Feb 23, 2012
• Publication Date: Mar 14, 2012
• Deposit Date: May 6, 2020
• Journal: Nano Letters
• Print ISSN: 1530-6984
• Electronic ISSN: 1530-6992
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1561-1565
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/nl204420s
• Keywords: Surface plasmons; Low-temperature effects; Plasmonic metamaterials; Plasmonic crystals
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1788971
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nl204420s