Additional peak appearing in the one-photon luminescence of single gold nanorods

作者:Froehlich Toni; Schoenenberger Christian; Calame Michel
来源:Optics Letters, 2016, 41(7): 1325-1328.
DOI:10.1364/OL.41.001325

摘要

We used a confocal laser microscope to investigate the one-photon photoluminescence (PL) of gold antennas. The PL spectra can be precisely fitted to a plasmon - enhanced PL model. For increasing the antenna length, the energy peak position decreases continuously until it reaches a value of 1.7 - 1.8 eV. For longer antennas and smaller plasmon energies, we observe an additional, persistent shoulder in the PL spectra, which we explain by a Gaussian - shaped peak at Delta(X) approximate to 1.78 - 1.79 eV. We attribute this behavior to the opening of an additional decay path for electrons at the gold interband transition edge, which we observe only for long antennas.

  • 出版日期2016-4-1