Nanooptics of Molecular-Shunted Plasmonic Nanojunctions

作者:Benz Felix; Tserkezis Christos; Herrmann Lars O; de Nijs Bart; Sanders Alan; Sigle Daniel O; Pukenas Laurynas; Evans Stephen D; Aizpurua Javier; Baumberg Jeremy J*
来源:Nano Letters, 2015, 15(1): 669-674.
DOI:10.1021/nl5041786

摘要

Gold nanoparticles are separated above a planar gold film by 1.1 nm thick self-assembled molecular monolayers of different conductivities. Incremental replacement of the nonconductive molecules with a chemically equivalent conductive version differing by only one atom produces a strong 50 nm blue-shift of the coupled plasmon. With modeling this gives a conductance of 0.17G0 per biphenyl-4,4'-dithiol molecule and a total conductance across the plasmonic junction of 30G0. Our approach provides a reliable tool quantifying the number of molecules in each plasmonic hotspot, here <200.

  • 出版日期2015-1