Plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures

NJ Halas, S Lal, WS Chang, S Link… - Chemical …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
The vivid optical properties of noble metal nanoparticles have been an object of fascination
since ancient times. The ruby red of stained glass windows arises from gold nanoparticles …

Nanoparticle assembly for 1D and 2D ordered structures

S Srivastava, NA Kotov - Soft Matter, 2009‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The skill to use new synthetic routes to assemble nanoparticles (NPs) into advanced
architectures for specific functions is a big challenge for the researchers. Controlled …

Inside Front Cover: One‐Dimensional Plasmon Coupling by Facile Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into Branched Chain Networks (Adv. Mater. 21/2005)

S Lin, M Li, E Dujardin, C Girard, S Mann - Advanced Materials, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
Short, single‐particle‐wide chains and complex networks of interconnected chains are
easily self‐assembled from 13 nm Au nanoparticles by inducing a surface electrostatic …

Theory of plasmon-enhanced Förster energy transfer in optically excited semiconductor and metal nanoparticles

AO Govorov, J Lee, NA Kotov - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2007‏ - APS
We describe the process of Förster transfer between semiconductor nanoparticles in the
presence of a metal subsystem (metal nanocrystals). In the presence of metal nanocrystals …

Exciton–plasmon interactions in molecular spring assemblies of nanowires and wavelength-based protein detection

J Lee, P Hernandez, J Lee, AO Govorov, NA Kotov - Nature materials, 2007‏ - nature.com
Electronic interactions at the nanoscale represent one of the fundamental problems of
nanotechnology. Excitons and plasmons are the two most typical excited states of …

Enhanced Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) on a single metal particle

J Zhang, Y Fu, JR Lakowicz - The journal of physical chemistry C, 2007‏ - ACS Publications
We examined the effect of a metallic silver particle on Förster resonance energy transfer
(FRET) between a nearby donor− acceptor pair. A donor-labeled oligonucleotide was …

Energy transport in metal nanoparticle chains via sub-radiant plasmon modes

B Willingham, S Link - Optics Express, 2011‏ - opg.optica.org
We investigate the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons through coupling of light to
sub-radiant dipole modes in finite chains of Ag nanoparticles. End excitation of collections of …

Topological collective plasmons in bipartite chains of metallic nanoparticles

CA Downing, G Weick - Physical Review B, 2017‏ - APS
We study a bipartite linear chain constituted by spherical metallic nanoparticles, where each
nanoparticle supports a localized surface plasmon. The near-field dipolar interaction …

Optical bistability and hysteresis of a hybrid metal-semiconductor nanodimer

AV Malyshev, VA Malyshev - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011‏ - APS
Optical response of an artificial composite nanodimer comprising a semiconductor quantum
dot and a metal nanosphere is analyzed theoretically. We show that internal degrees of …

Multiplexing near-and far-field functionalities with high-efficiency bi-channel metasurfaces

C Dai, T Liu, D Wang, L Zhou - PhotoniX, 2024‏ - Springer
Propagating waves and surface waves are two distinct types of light-transporting modes, the
free control of which are both highly desired in integration photonics. However, previously …