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Plasmon hybridization engineering in self-organized anisotropic metasurfaces

Show Author's Information Maria C. Giordano1,†,  Stefano Longhi2,  Matteo Barelli1,  Andrea Mazzanti2,  Francesco Buatier de Mongeot1( ),  Giuseppe Della Valle2( )
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Genova, I-16146Italy
Dipartimento di Fisica and IFN-CNRPolitecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano, I-20133Italy

† Present address: CNR – NANO, Laboratorio NEST, Piazza San Silvestro, Pisa I-56127, Italy

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gold nanostructures, metasurfaces, self-organization, plasmon hybridization, gap plasmon resonances
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The engineering of self-organized plasmonic metasurfaces is demonstrated using a maskless technique with defocused ion-beam sputtering and kinetically controlled deposition. The proposed reliable, cost-effective, and controllable approach enables large-area (order of square centimeter) sub-wavelength periodic patterning with close-packed gold nanostrips. A multi-level variant of the method leads to high-resolution manufacturing of vertically stacked nanostrip dimer arrays, without resorting to lithographic approaches. The design of these self-organized metasurfaces is optimized by employing plasmon hybridization methods. In particular, preliminary results on the so-called gap-plasmon configuration of the nanostrip dimers, implementing magnetic dipole resonance in the near-infrared range, are reported. This resonance offers a superior sensitivity and field enhancement, compared with the more conventional electric dipole resonance. The translational invariance of the nanostrip configuration leads to a high filling factor of the hot spots. These advanced features make the large-area metasurface based on gap-plasmon nanostrip dimers very attractive for surface-enhanced linear and nonlinear spectroscopy (e.g., surface-enhanced Raman scattering) and plasmon-enhanced photon harvesting in solar and photovoltaic cells.


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Plasmon hybridization engineering in self-organized anisotropic metasurfaces

Show Author's information Maria C. Giordano1,†, Stefano Longhi2, Matteo Barelli1, Andrea Mazzanti2, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot1( ), Giuseppe Della Valle2( )
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Genova, I-16146Italy
Dipartimento di Fisica and IFN-CNRPolitecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano, I-20133Italy

† Present address: CNR – NANO, Laboratorio NEST, Piazza San Silvestro, Pisa I-56127, Italy

Abstract

The engineering of self-organized plasmonic metasurfaces is demonstrated using a maskless technique with defocused ion-beam sputtering and kinetically controlled deposition. The proposed reliable, cost-effective, and controllable approach enables large-area (order of square centimeter) sub-wavelength periodic patterning with close-packed gold nanostrips. A multi-level variant of the method leads to high-resolution manufacturing of vertically stacked nanostrip dimer arrays, without resorting to lithographic approaches. The design of these self-organized metasurfaces is optimized by employing plasmon hybridization methods. In particular, preliminary results on the so-called gap-plasmon configuration of the nanostrip dimers, implementing magnetic dipole resonance in the near-infrared range, are reported. This resonance offers a superior sensitivity and field enhancement, compared with the more conventional electric dipole resonance. The translational invariance of the nanostrip configuration leads to a high filling factor of the hot spots. These advanced features make the large-area metasurface based on gap-plasmon nanostrip dimers very attractive for surface-enhanced linear and nonlinear spectroscopy (e.g., surface-enhanced Raman scattering) and plasmon-enhanced photon harvesting in solar and photovoltaic cells.

Keywords: gold nanostructures, metasurfaces, self-organization, plasmon hybridization, gap plasmon resonances

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Received: 06 July 2017
Revised: 13 December 2017
Accepted: 28 December 2017
Published: 02 August 2018
Issue date: July 2018

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) through the PRIN 2015 Grant No. 015WTW7J3. F. Buatier de Mongeot acknowledges the support by the Compagnia di San Paolo through the Project ID ROL 9361 and by the MAECI through the Italy-Egypt bilateral protocol. F. Buatier de Mongeot and G. Della Valle acknowledge the COST Action MP1302-NanoSpectroscopy.

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