Active Molecular Plasmonics: Controlling Plasmon Resonances with Molecular Switches

作者:Zheng Yue Bing; Yang Ying Wei; Jensen Lasse; Fang Lei; Juluri Bala Krishna; Flood Amar H; Weiss Paul S; Stoddart J Fraser*; Huang Tony Jun
来源:Nano Letters, 2009, 9(2): 819-825.
DOI:10.1021/nl803539g

摘要

A gold nanodisk array, coated with bistable, redox-controllable [2]rotaxane molecules, when exposed to chemical oxidants and reductants, undergoes switching of its plasmonic properties reversibly. By contrast, (i) bare gold nanodisks and (ii) disks coated with a redox-active, but mechanically inert, control compound do not display surface-plasmon-based switching. Along with calculations based on time-dependent density functional theory, these experimental observations suggest that the nanoscale movements within surface-bound "molecular machines" can be used as the active components in plasmonic devices.