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Tailoring Plasmonics of Au@Ag Nanoparticles by Silica Encapsulation
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Hybrid metallic nanoparticles encapsulated in oxide shells are currently intensely studied for plasmonic applications in sensing, medicine, catalysis, and photovoltaics. Here, we introduce a method for the synthesis of Au@Ag@SiO$_2$ cubes with a uniform silica shell of variable and adjustable thickness in the nanometer range; and we demonstrate their excellent, highly reproducible, and tunable optical response. Varying the silica shell thickness, we could tune the excitation energies of the single nanoparticle plasmon modes in a broad spectral range between 2.55 and 3.25\,eV. Most importantly, we reveal a strong coherent coupling of the surface plasmons at the silver-silica interface with the whispering gallery resonance at the silica-vacuum interface leading to a significant field enhancement at the encapsulated nanoparticle surface in the range of 100\,\% at shell thicknesses $t\,$$\simeq\,$20\,nm. Consequently, the synthesis method and the field enhancement open pathways to a widespread use of silver nanoparticles in plasmonic applications including photonic crystals and may be transferred to other non-precious metals.
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2105.13946
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202101221