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Toffoletti F, Collini E. Coherent and Incoherent Ultrafast Dynamics in Colloidal Gold Nanorods. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:339-348. [PMID: 38170625 PMCID: PMC10788960 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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The study of the mechanisms that control the ultrafast dynamics in gold nanoparticles is gaining more attention, as these nanomaterials can be used to create nanoarchitectures with outstanding optical properties. Here pump-probe and two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy have been synergistically employed to investigate the early ultrafast femtosecond processes following photoexcitation in colloidal gold nanorods with low aspect ratio. Complementary insights into the coherent plasmonic dynamics at the femtosecond time scale and incoherent hot electron dynamics over picosecond time scales have been obtained, including important information on the different sensitivity to the pump fluence of the longitudinal and transverse plasmons and their different contributions to the photoinduced broadening and shift.
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- Federico Toffoletti
- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
- Padua
Quantum Technologies Research Center, Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Cheng D, Song B, Kang JH, Sundahl C, Edgeton AL, Luo L, Park JM, Collantes YG, Hellstrom EE, Mootz M, Perakis IE, Eom CB, Wang J. Study of Elastic and Structural Properties of BaFe 2As 2 Ultrathin Film Using Picosecond Ultrasonics. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:7031. [PMID: 37959629 PMCID: PMC10650054 DOI: 10.3390/ma16217031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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We obtain the through-thickness elastic stiffness coefficient (C33) in nominal 9 nm and 60 nm BaFe2As2 (Ba-122) thin films by using picosecond ultrasonics. Particularly, we reveal the increase in elastic stiffness as film thickness decreases from bulk value down to 9 nm, which we attribute to the increase in intrinsic strain near the film-substrate interface. Our density functional theory (DFT) calculations reproduce the observed acoustic oscillation frequencies well. In addition, temperature dependence of longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonon mode frequency for 9 nm Ba-122 thin film is reported. The frequency change is attributed to the change in Ba-122 orthorhombicity (a-b)/(a+b). This conclusion can be corroborated by our previous ultrafast ellipticity measurements in 9 nm Ba-122 thin film, which exhibit strong temperature dependence and indicate the structural phase transition temperature Ts.
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- Di Cheng
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; (D.C.); (B.S.); (L.L.); (J.-M.P.)
- Ames National Laboratory-USDOE, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; (D.C.); (B.S.); (L.L.); (J.-M.P.)
- Ames National Laboratory-USDOE, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; (J.-H.K.); (C.S.); (A.L.E.); (C.-B.E.)
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; (J.-H.K.); (C.S.); (A.L.E.); (C.-B.E.)
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; (J.-H.K.); (C.S.); (A.L.E.); (C.-B.E.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; (D.C.); (B.S.); (L.L.); (J.-M.P.)
- Ames National Laboratory-USDOE, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; (D.C.); (B.S.); (L.L.); (J.-M.P.)
- Ames National Laboratory-USDOE, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA (E.E.H.)
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- Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA (E.E.H.)
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- Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170, USA; (M.M.); (I.E.P.)
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- Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170, USA; (M.M.); (I.E.P.)
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; (J.-H.K.); (C.S.); (A.L.E.); (C.-B.E.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; (D.C.); (B.S.); (L.L.); (J.-M.P.)
- Ames National Laboratory-USDOE, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Vernier C, Saviot L, Fan Y, Courty A, Portalès H. Sensitivity of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance and Acoustic Vibrations to Edge Rounding in Silver Nanocubes. ACS NANO 2023; 17:20462-20472. [PMID: 37812521 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/11/2023]
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Precise knowledge of the dependence of nano-object properties on their structural characteristics such as their size, shape, composition, or crystallinity, in turn, enables them to be finely characterized using appropriate techniques. Spectrophotometry and inelastic light scattering spectroscopy are noninvasive techniques that are proving highly robust and efficient for characterizing the optical response and vibrational properties of metal nano-objects. Here, we investigate the optical and vibrational properties of monodomain silver nanocubes synthesized by the chemical route, with edge length ranging from around 20 to 58 nm. The synthesized nanocrystals are not perfectly cubic and exhibit rounded edges and corners. This rounding was quantitatively taken into account by assimilating the shape of the nanocubes to superellipsoids. The effect of rounding on their optical response was clearly evidenced by localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and supported by calculations based on the discrete dipole approximation method. The study of their acoustic vibrations by high-resolution low-frequency Raman scattering revealed a substructure of the T2g band, which was analyzed as a function of rounding. The measured frequencies are consistent with the existence of an anticrossing pattern of the two T2g branches. Such an avoided crossing in the T2g modes is clearly evidenced by calculating the vibrational frequencies of silver nanocubes using the Rayleigh-Ritz variational method that accounts for both their real size, shape, and cubic elasticity. These results show that it is possible to assess the rounding of nanocubes, including by means of ensemble spectroscopic measurements on well-calibrated particles.
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- Charles Vernier
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, Paris 75005, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon CEDEX 21078, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, Paris 75005, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, Paris 75005, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MONARIS, UMR 8233, Paris 75005, France
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Hernando Abad E, Bouyer F, Chaabane L, Zerrouki A, Margueritat J, Saviot L. Sub-THz Vibrational Dynamics in Ordered Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:2078. [PMID: 37513089 PMCID: PMC10384747 DOI: 10.3390/nano13142078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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The vibrational dynamics in the sub-THz range of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) having ordered cylindrical mesopores was investigated. MCM-41 and SBA-15 particles were synthesized, and their structure was determined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), low-angle X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 physisorption analyses, and Raman scattering. Brillouin scattering measurements are reported and enabled determining the stiffness of the silica walls (speed of sound) using finite element calculations for the ordered mesoporous structure. The relevance of this approach is discussed based on the comparison between the numerical and experimental results and previous works reported in the literature.
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- Eduardo Hernando Abad
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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Danilov EA, Uryupin SA. Terahertz sound generation at the effect of a femtosecond pulse of laser radiation on a metal. OPTICS LETTERS 2023; 48:2170-2173. [PMID: 37058669 DOI: 10.1364/ol.487508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Sound generation by a femtosecond laser pulse in a metal layer on a dielectric substrate is studied. The excitation of sound caused by the effect of the ponderomotive force, temperature gradients of electrons, and lattice is considered. A comparison is made of these generation mechanisms for various excitation conditions and frequencies of generated sound. It is shown that in the case when effective collision frequencies in the metal are low, sound generation dominates in the terahertz frequency range due to the ponderomotive effect of the laser pulse.
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Maldonado AS, Faccio R, Ramos SB. Structure and size-dependent vibrational and thermal properties of Ni clusters: A systematic ab initio approach. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 121:108445. [PMID: 36907014 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2023.108445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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There is scarce information on the vibrational and thermal properties of small Ni clusters. Here, the outcomes of ab initio spin-polarized density functional theory calculations on the size and geometry effects upon the vibrational and thermal properties of Nin (n = 13 and 55) clusters, are discussed. For theses clusters a comparison is presented between the closed shell symmetric octahedral (Oh) and the icosahedral (Ih) geometries. The results indicate that the Ih isomers are lower in energy. Besides, ab initio molecular dynamics runs at T = 300K show that Ni13 and Ni55 clusters transform from their initial Oh geometries towards the corresponding Ih ones. For Ni13, we also consider the lowest energy less symmetric layered 1-3-6-3 structure, and the cuboid, recently observed experimentally for Pt13, which is competitive in energy but is unstable, as phonon analysis reveals. We calculate their vibrational density of states (νDOS) and heat capacity, and compare with the Ni FCC bulk counterpart. The characteristic features of the νDOS curves of these clusters are interpreted in terms of the clusters' sizes, the interatomic distance contractions, the bond order values as well as the internal pressure and strains of the clusters. We find that the softest possible frequency of the clusters is size and structure-dependent, being the smallest for the Oh ones. We identify mostly shear, tangential type displacements involving mainly surface atoms for the lowest frequency of the spectra of both Ih and Oh isomers. For the maximum frequencies of these clusters the central atom shows anti-phase movements against groups of nearest neighbor atoms. An excess of heat capacity at low temperatures with respect to the bulk is found, while at high temperatures a constant limiting value, close but lower to the Dulong and Petit value, is determined.
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- A S Maldonado
- Dpto. de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina; Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos, Biotecnología y Energías Alternativas - CONICET - UNCo, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina
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- Área Física & Centro NanoMat, Departamento de Experimentación y Teoría de la Estructura de la Materia y sus Aplicaciones (DETEMA), Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Av. Gral. Flores 2124, CC 1157, CP 11800, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Dpto. de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina; Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos, Biotecnología y Energías Alternativas - CONICET - UNCo, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina.
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Ducottet S, El Baroudi A. Small-scale effects on the radial vibration of an elastic nanosphere based on nonlocal strain gradient theory. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2023; 34:115704. [PMID: 36595326 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/acab06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Nonlocal strain gradient theory is widely used when dealing with micro- and nano-structures. In such framework, small-scale effects cannot be ignored. In this paper a model of radial vibration of an isotropic elastic nanosphere is theoretically investigated. The frequency equation is obtained from a nonlocal elastic constitutive law, based on a mix between local and nonlocal strain. This model is composed of both the classical gradient model and the Eringen's nonlocal elasticity model. To check the validity and accuracy of this theoretical approach, a comparison is made with the literature in certain specific cases, which shows a good agreement. Numerical examples are finally conducted to show the impact of small-scale effects in the radial vibration, which need to be included in the nonlocal strain gradient theory of nanospheres. It reveals that the vibration behavior greatly depends on the nanosphere size and nonlocal and strain gradient parameters. Particularly, when the nanospheres radius is smaller than a critical radius, the small-scale effects play a key role. Thus, the obtained frequency equation for radial vibration is very useful to interpret the experimental measurements of vibrational characteristics of nanospheres.
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- S Ducottet
- LAMPA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Angers, F-49035, France
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- LAMPA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Angers, F-49035, France
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Uthe B, Sader JE, Pelton M. Optical measurement of the picosecond fluid mechanics in simple liquids generated by vibrating nanoparticles: a review. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 85:103001. [PMID: 36049471 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac8e82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Standard continuum assumptions commonly used to describe the fluid mechanics of simple liquids have the potential to break down when considering flows at the nanometer scale. Two common assumptions for simple molecular liquids are that (1) they exhibit a Newtonian response, where the viscosity uniquely specifies the linear relationship between the stress and strain rate, and (2) the liquid moves in tandem with the solid at any solid-liquid interface, known as the no-slip condition. However, even simple molecular liquids can exhibit a non-Newtonian, viscoelastic response at the picosecond time scales that are characteristic of the motion of many nanoscale objects; this viscoelasticity arises because these time scales can be comparable to those of molecular relaxation in the liquid. In addition, even liquids that wet solid surfaces can exhibit nanometer-scale slip at those surfaces. It has recently become possible to interrogate the viscoelastic response of simple liquids and associated nanoscale slip using optical measurements of the mechanical vibrations of metal nanoparticles. Plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles provide strong optical signals that can be accessed by several spectroscopies, most notably ultrafast transient-absorption spectroscopy. These spectroscopies have been used to measure the frequency and damping rate of acoustic oscillations in the nanoparticles, providing quantitative information about mechanical coupling and exchange of mechanical energy between the solid particle and its surrounding liquid. This information, in turn, has been used to elucidate the rheology of viscoelastic simple liquids at the nanoscale in terms of their constitutive relations, taking into account separate viscoelastic responses for both shear and compressible flows. The nanoparticle vibrations have also been used to provide quantitative measurements of slip lengths on the single-nanometer scale. Viscoelasticity has been shown to amplify nanoscale slip, illustrating the interplay between different aspects of the unconventional fluid dynamics of simple liquids at nanometer length scales and picosecond time scales.
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- Brian Uthe
- Department of Physics, UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Baltimore, MD 21250, United States of America
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Department of Physics, UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Baltimore, MD 21250, United States of America
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Gutiérrez-Varela O, Merabia S, Santamaria R. Size-dependent effects of the thermal transport at gold nanoparticle-water interfaces. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:084702. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0096033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The transfer of heat from a plasmonic nanoparticle to its water environment has numerous applications in the fields of solar energy conversion and photothermal therapies. We use non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to investigate the size-dependent effects of the interfacial thermal conductance of gold nanoparticles immersed in water and of tunable wettability. The interfacial thermal conductance is found to increase when the nanoparticle size decreases. We rationalize such a behavior with a generalized acoustic model, where the interfacial bonding decreases with the nanoparticle size. The analysis of the interfacial thermal spectrum reveals the importance of the low frequency peak of the nanoparticle spectrum as it matches relatively well the oxygen peak in the vibrational spectrum. However, by reducing the nanoparticle size, the low frequency peak is exacerbated, explaining the enhanced heat transfer observed for small nanoparticles. Finally, we assess the accuracy of continuum heat transferequations to describe the thermal relaxation of small nanoparticles with initial high temperatures.We show that, before the nanoparticle looses its integrity, the continuum model succeed in describing with small percentage deviations the molecular-dynamics data. This work brings a simple methodology to understand, beyond the plasmonic nanoparticles, thermal boundary conductance between a nanopartice and its environment.
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- Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS Delegation Rhone-Auvergne, France
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Wang J, Li M, Jiang Y, Yu K, Hartland GV, Wang GP. Polymer dependent acoustic mode coupling and Hooke's law spring constants in stacked gold nanoplates. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:144701. [PMID: 34654293 DOI: 10.1063/5.0066661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Metal nanoparticles are excellent acoustic resonators and their vibrational spectroscopy has been widely investigated. However, the coupling between vibrational modes of different nanoparticles is less explored. For example, how the intervening medium affects the coupling strength is not known. Here, we investigate how different polymers affect coupling in Au nanoplate-polymer-Au nanoplate sandwich structures. The coupling between the breathing modes of the Au nanoplates was measured using single-particle pump-probe spectroscopy, and the polymer dependent coupling strength was determined experimentally. Analysis of the acoustic mode coupling gives the effective spring constant for the polymers. A relative motion mode was also observed for the stacked Au nanoplates. The frequency of this mode is strongly correlated with the coupling constant for the breathing modes. The breathing mode coupling and relative motion mode were analyzed using a coupled oscillator model. This model shows that both these effects can be described using the same spring constant for the polymer. Finally, we present a new type of mass balance using the strongly coupled resonators. We show that the resonators have a mass detection limit of a few femtograms. We envision that further understanding of the vibrational coupling in acoustic resonators will improve the coupling strength and expand their potential applications.
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- Junzhong Wang
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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Pedroza-Montero JN, Garzón IL, Sauceda HE. On the forbidden graphene's ZO (out-of-plane optic) phononic band-analog vibrational modes in fullerenes. Commun Chem 2021; 4:103. [PMID: 36697581 PMCID: PMC9814469 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-021-00540-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The study of nanostructures' vibrational properties is at the core of nanoscience research. They are known to represent a fingerprint of the system as well as to hint the underlying nature of chemical bonds. In this work, we focus on addressing how the vibrational density of states (VDOS) of the carbon fullerene family (Cn: n = 20 → 720 atoms) evolves from the molecular to the bulk material (graphene) behavior using density functional theory. We find that the fullerene's VDOS smoothly converges to the graphene characteristic line-shape, with the only noticeable discrepancy in the frequency range of the out-of-plane optic (ZO) phonon band. From a comparison of both systems we obtain as main results that: (1) The pentagonal faces in the fullerenes impede the existence of the analog of the high frequency graphene's ZO phonons, (2) which in the context of phonons could be interpreted as a compression (by 43%) of the ZO phonon band by decreasing its maximum allowed radial-optic vibration frequency. And 3) as a result, the deviation of fullerene's VDOS relative to graphene may hold important thermodynamical implications, such as larger heat capacities compared to graphene at room-temperature. These results provide insights that can be extrapolated to other nanostructures containing pentagonal rings or pentagonal defects.
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- Jesús N. Pedroza-Montero
- grid.418275.d0000 0001 2165 8782Programa de Doctorado en Nanociencias y Nanotecnologías, CINVESTAV, CDMX, México
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- grid.9486.30000 0001 2159 0001Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, Mexico
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- grid.418028.70000 0001 0565 1775Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, D-14195 Berlin, Germany ,grid.6734.60000 0001 2292 8254Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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Yu K, Yang Y, Wang J, Hartland GV, Wang GP. Nanoparticle-Fluid Interactions at Ultrahigh Acoustic Vibration Frequencies Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Microscopy. ACS NANO 2021; 15:1833-1840. [PMID: 33448792 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Liquid viscous and viscoelastic properties are very important parameters in determining rheological phenomena. Mechanical resonators with extremely high vibrational frequencies interacting with simple liquids present a wide range of applications from mass sensing to biomechanics. However, a lack of understanding of fluid viscoelasticity greatly hinders the utilization of mechanical resonators. In this paper, the high frequency acoustic vibrations of Au nanoplates with large quality factors were used to probe fluid properties (water, glycerol, and their mixtures) through time-resolved pump-probe microscopy experiments. For water, viscous damping was clearly observed, where an inviscid effect was only detected previously. Adding glycerol to the water increases the fluid viscosity and leads to a bulk viscoelastic response in the system. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with a continuum mechanics model for the damping of nanoplate breathing modes in liquids, confirming the experimental observation of viscoelastic effects. In addition to the breathing modes of the nanoplates, Brillouin oscillations are observed in the experiments. Analysis of the frequency of the Brillouin oscillations also shows the presence of viscoelastic effects in the high-viscosity solvents. The detection and analysis of viscous damping in liquids is important not only for understanding the energy dissipation mechanisms and providing the mechanical relaxation times of the liquids but also for developing applications of nanomechanical resonators for fluid environments.
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- Kuai Yu
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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Wang J, Yang Y, Wang N, Yu K, Hartland GV, Wang GP. Long Lifetime and Coupling of Acoustic Vibrations of Gold Nanoplates on Unsupported Thin Films. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:10339-10346. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b08733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Junzhong Wang
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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Wang Y, Wu J, Moradi S, Gordon R. Generating and Detecting High-Frequency Liquid-Based Sound Resonances with Nanoplasmonics. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:7050-7053. [PMID: 31483671 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We use metal nanostructures (nanoplasmonics) excited with dual frequency lasers to generate and detect high-frequency (>10 GHz) sound wave resonances in water. The difference frequency between the two lasers causes beating in the intensity, which results in a drop in the transmission through the nanostructure when an acoustic resonance is excited. By observing the resonance frequency shifts with changing nanostructure size, the transition from slow to fast sound in water is inferred, which has been measured by inelastic scattering methods in the past. The observed behavior shows remarkable similarities to finite element simulations using a simple Debye model for sound velocity (without fitting parameters).
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- Yanhong Wang
- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research , North University of China , No. 3 Xueyuan Road , Taiyuan , Shanxi China , 030051
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- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research , North University of China , No. 3 Xueyuan Road , Taiyuan , Shanxi China , 030051
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Victoria , Victoria , British Columbia Canada , V8P5C2
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Victoria , Victoria , British Columbia Canada , V8P5C2
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Medeghini F, Rouxel R, Crut A, Maioli P, Rossella F, Banfi F, Vallée F, Del Fatti N. Signatures of Small Morphological Anisotropies in the Plasmonic and Vibrational Responses of Individual Nano-objects. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:5372-5380. [PMID: 31449419 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The plasmonic and vibrational properties of single gold nanodisks patterned on a sapphire substrate are investigated via spatial modulation and pump-probe optical spectroscopies. The features of the measured extinction spectra and time-resolved signals are highly sensitive to minute deviations of the nanodisk morphology from a perfectly cylindrical one. An elliptical nanodisk section, as compared to a circular one, lifts the degeneracy of the two nanodisk in-plane dipolar surface plasmon resonances, which can be selectively excited by controlling the polarization of the incident light. This splitting effect, whose amplitude increases with nanodisk ellipticity, correlates with the detection of additional vibrational modes in the context of time-resolved spectroscopy. Analysis of the measurements is performed through the combination of optical and acoustic numerical models. This allows us first to estimate the dimensions of the investigated nanodisks from their plasmonic response and then to compare the measured and computed frequencies of their detectable vibrational modes, which are found to be in excellent agreement. This study demonstrates that single-particle optical spectroscopies are able to provide access to fine morphological characteristics, representing in this case a valuable alternative to traditional techniques aimed at postfabrication inspection of subwavelength nanodevice morphology.
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- Fabio Medeghini
- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- NEST , Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR , Piazza S. Silvestro 12 , I-56124 Pisa , Italy
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
- Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics (I-LAMP) , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , I-25121 Brescia , Italy
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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Balogun O. Optically Detecting Acoustic Oscillations at the Nanoscale: Exploring Techniques Suitable for Studying Elastic Wave Propagation. IEEE NANOTECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE 2019. [DOI: 10.1109/mnano.2019.2905021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Gan Y, Sun Z. Crystal structure dependence of the breathing vibration of individual gold nanodisks induced by the ultrafast laser. APPLIED OPTICS 2019; 58:213-218. [PMID: 30645531 DOI: 10.1364/ao.58.000213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The ultrafast laser-excited breathing vibrations of gold nanodisks with different crystal structures have been studied via atomistic simulations. The vibrational periods and damping rates of nanodisks are obtained by the analysis of the simulated transient responses of nanodisks. It is shown that the breathing period of nanodisks is considerably dependent on their crystal structure, which is contrary to the cases for the breathing vibration of metal nanospheres and nanorods. Furthermore, single-crystal nanodisks exhibit much lower intrinsic damping as compared with polycrystalline nanodisks, for which the additional energy dissipation by the grain boundaries in the polycrystalline nanodisks could be one major factor.
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Maioli P, Stoll T, Sauceda HE, Valencia I, Demessence A, Bertorelle F, Crut A, Vallée F, Garzón IL, Cerullo G, Del Fatti N. Mechanical Vibrations of Atomically Defined Metal Clusters: From Nano- to Molecular-Size Oscillators. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:6842-6849. [PMID: 30247927 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Acoustic vibrations of small nanoparticles are still ruled by continuum mechanics laws down to diameters of a few nanometers. The elastic behavior at lower sizes (<1-2 nm), where nanoparticles become molecular clusters made by few tens to few atoms, is still little explored. The question remains to which extent the transition from small continuous-mass solids to discrete-atom molecular clusters affects their specific low-frequency vibrational modes, whose period is classically expected to linearly scale with diameter. Here, we investigate experimentally by ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy the acoustic response of atomically defined ligand-protected metal clusters Au n(SR) m with a number n of atoms ranging from 10 to 102 (0.5-1.5 nm diameter range). Two periods, corresponding to fundamental breathing- and quadrupolar-like acoustic modes, are detected, with the latter scaling linearly with cluster diameters and the former taking a constant value. Theoretical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) predict in the case of bare clusters vibrational periods scaling with size down to diatomic molecules. For ligand-protected clusters, they show a pronounced effect of the ligand molecules on the breathing-like mode vibrational period at the origin of its constant value. This deviation from classical elasticity predictions results from mechanical mass-loading effects due to the protecting layer. This study shows that clusters characteristic vibrational frequencies are compatible with extrapolation of continuum mechanics model down to few atoms, which is in agreement with DFT computations.
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- Paolo Maioli
- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano , IFN-CNR , Piazza L. da Vinci 32 , I-20133 Milano , Italy
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- Fritz-Haber-Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft , 14195 Berlin , Germany
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- Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 54090 Tlanepantla , Estado de México México
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- Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse et l'Environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON) , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Instituto de Física , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 CDMX , México
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano , IFN-CNR , Piazza L. da Vinci 32 , I-20133 Milano , Italy
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- Institut Lumière Matière , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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Fuentes-Domínguez R, Pérez-Cota F, Naznin S, Smith RJ, Clark M. Super-resolution imaging using nano-bells. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16373. [PMID: 30401881 PMCID: PMC6219565 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34744-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In this paper we demonstrate a new scheme for optical super-resolution, inspired, in-part, by PALM and STORM. In this scheme each object in the field of view is tagged with a signal that allows them to be detected separately. By doing this we can identify and locate each object separately with significantly higher resolution than the diffraction limit. We demonstrate this by imaging nanoparticles significantly smaller than the optical resolution limit. In this case the "tag" we have used is the frequency of vibration of nanoscale "bells" made of metallic nanoparticles whose acoustic vibrational frequency is in the multi-GHz range. Since the vibration of the particles can be easily excited and detected and the frequency is directly related to the particle size, we can separate the signals from many particles of sufficiently different sizes even though they are smaller than, and separated by less than, the optical resolution limit. Using this scheme we have been able to localise the nanoparticle position with a precision of ~3 nm. This has many potential advantages - such nanoparticles are easily inserted into cells and well tolerated, the particles do not bleach and can be produced easily with very dispersed sizes. We estimate that 50 or more different particles (or frequency channels) can be accessed in each optical point spread function using the vibrational frequencies of gold nanospheres. However, many more channels may be accessed using more complex structures (such as nanorods) and detection techniques (for instance using polarization or wavelength selective detection) opening up this technique as a generalized method of achieving super-optical resolution imaging.
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- Optics and Photonics Group, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Optics and Photonics Group, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Optics and Photonics Group, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Optics and Photonics Group, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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Medeghini F, Crut A, Gandolfi M, Rossella F, Maioli P, Vallée F, Banfi F, Del Fatti N. Controlling the Quality Factor of a Single Acoustic Nanoresonator by Tuning its Morphology. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:5159-5166. [PMID: 29989822 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The mechanical vibrations of individual gold nanodisks nanopatterned on a sapphire substrate are investigated using ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy. The number and characteristics of the detected acoustic modes are found to vary with nanodisk geometry. In particular, their quality factors strongly depend on nanodisk aspect ratio (i.e., diameter over height ratio), reaching a maximal value of ≈70, higher than those previously measured for substrate-supported nano-objects. The peculiarities of the detected acoustic vibrations are confirmed by finite-element simulations, and interpreted as the result of substrate-induced hybridization between the vibrational modes of a nanodisk. The present findings demonstrate novel possibilities for engineering the vibrational modes of nano-objects.
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- Fabio Medeghini
- FemtoNanoOptics Group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics (I-LAMP) , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Brescia I-25121 , Italy
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Brescia I-25121 , Italy
- Laboratory of Soft Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy , KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200D , B-3001 Heverlee, Leuven , Belgium
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- NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR , Piazza S. Silvestro 12 , I-56124 Pisa , Italy
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics (I-LAMP) , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Brescia I-25121 , Italy
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group , Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Lumière Matière , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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Baldini E, Palmieri T, Dominguez A, Ruello P, Rubio A, Chergui M. Phonon-Driven Selective Modulation of Exciton Oscillator Strengths in Anatase TiO 2 Nanoparticles. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:5007-5014. [PMID: 30040906 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The way nuclear motion affects electronic responses has become a very hot topic in materials science. Coherent acoustic phonons can dynamically modify optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties at ultrasonic frequencies, with promising applications as sensors and transducers. Here, by means of ultrafast broadband deep-ultraviolet spectroscopy, we demonstrate that coherent acoustic phonons confined in anatase TiO2 nanoparticles can selectively modulate the oscillator strength of the two-dimensional bound excitons supported by the material. We use many-body perturbation-theory calculations to reveal that the deformation potential is the mechanism behind the generation of the observed coherent acoustic wavepackets. Our results offer a route to manipulate and dynamically tune the properties of excitons in the deep-ultraviolet at room temperature.
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- Edoardo Baldini
- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
- Department of Physics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Departamen to Fisicade Materiales , Universidad del País Vasco , Avenue Tolosa 72 , E-20018 , San Sebastian , Spain
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283 , Le Mans Université , 72085 Le Mans , France
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- Departamen to Fisicade Materiales , Universidad del País Vasco , Avenue Tolosa 72 , E-20018 , San Sebastian , Spain
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter , D-22761 , Hamburg , Germany
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- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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Yi C, Su MN, Dongare PD, Chakraborty D, Cai YY, Marolf DM, Kress RN, Ostovar B, Tauzin LJ, Wen F, Chang WS, Jones MR, Sader JE, Halas NJ, Link S. Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:3494-3501. [PMID: 29715035 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The study of acoustic vibrations in nanoparticles provides unique and unparalleled insight into their mechanical properties. Electron-beam lithography of nanostructures allows precise manipulation of their acoustic vibration frequencies through control of nanoscale morphology. However, the dissipation of acoustic vibrations in this important class of nanostructures has not yet been examined. Here we report, using single-particle ultrafast transient extinction spectroscopy, the intrinsic damping dynamics in lithographically fabricated plasmonic nanostructures. We find that in stark contrast to chemically synthesized, monocrystalline nanoparticles, acoustic energy dissipation in lithographically fabricated nanostructures is solely dominated by intrinsic damping. A quality factor of Q = 11.3 ± 2.5 is observed for all 147 nanostructures, regardless of size, geometry, frequency, surface adhesion, and mode. This result indicates that the complex Young's modulus of this material is independent of frequency with its imaginary component being approximately 11 times smaller than its real part. Substrate-mediated acoustic vibration damping is strongly suppressed, despite strong binding between the glass substrate and Au nanostructures. We anticipate that these results, characterizing the optomechanical properties of lithographically fabricated metal nanostructures, will help inform their design for applications such as photoacoustic imaging agents, high-frequency resonators, and ultrafast optical switches.
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- Chongyue Yi
- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Applied Physics Graduate Program , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics , The University of Melbourne , Parkville , VIC 3010 , Australia
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics , The University of Melbourne , Parkville , VIC 3010 , Australia
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Laboratory for Nanophotonics , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
- Laboratory for Nanophotonics , Rice University , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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Girard A, Gehan H, Mermet A, Bonnet C, Lermé J, Berthelot A, Cottancin E, Crut A, Margueritat J. Acoustic Mode Hybridization in a Single Dimer of Gold Nanoparticles. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:3800-3806. [PMID: 29715427 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The acoustic vibrations of single monomers and dimers of gold nanoparticles were investigated by measuring for the first time their ultralow-frequency micro-Raman scattering. This experiment provides access not only to the frequency of the detected vibrational modes but also to their damping rate, which is obscured by inhomogeneous effects in measurements on ensembles of nano-objects. This allows a detailed analysis of the mechanical coupling occurring between two close nanoparticles (mediated by the polymer surrounding them) in the dimer case. Such coupling induces the hybridization of the vibrational modes of each nanoparticle, leading to the appearance in the Raman spectra of two ultralow-frequency modes corresponding to the out-of-phase longitudinal and transverse (with respect to the dimer axis) quasi-translations of the nanoparticles. Additionally, it is also shown to shift the frequency of the quadrupolar modes of the nanoparticles. Experimental results are interpreted using finite-element simulations, which enable the unambiguous identification of the detected modes and despite the simplifications made lead to a reasonable reproduction of their measured frequencies and quality factors. The demonstrated feasibility of low-frequency Raman scattering experiments on single nano-objects opens up new possibilities to improve the understanding of nanoscale vibrations with this technique being complementary with single nano-object time-resolved spectroscopy as it gives access to different vibrational modes.
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- Adrien Girard
- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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- Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , UMR CNRS 5306 , F-69622 Villeurbanne , France
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Hsueh CC, Gordon R, Rottler J. Dewetting during Terahertz Vibrations of Nanoparticles. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:773-777. [PMID: 29308901 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We use molecular simulations to demonstrate the formation of a vacuum layer around a vibrating nanoparticle in a liquid. This vacuum layer forms readily for high frequencies with respect to the characteristic vibrational (Einstein) frequency of the fluid, even with small amplitude vibrations. The opposite is true for low frequencies, where large amplitudes are required to demonstrate the vacuum layer. With the vacuum layer forming, the quality factor of the oscillations increases substantially. The findings provide an interpretation of our recent experiments that show the onset of high-quality resonances of nanoparticles in water ( Xiang et al. Nano Lett. 2016 , 16 , 3638 ) in the gigahertz to terahertz range.
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- Ching-Chung Hsueh
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia , Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia , Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Ahmed A, Pelton M, Guest JR. Understanding How Acoustic Vibrations Modulate the Optical Response of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles. ACS NANO 2017; 11:9360-9369. [PMID: 28817767 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Measurements of acoustic vibrations in nanoparticles provide an opportunity to study mechanical phenomena at nanometer length scales and picosecond time scales. Vibrations in noble-metal nanoparticles have attracted particular attention because they couple to plasmon resonances in the nanoparticles, leading to strong modulation of optical absorption and scattering. There are three mechanisms that transduce the mechanical oscillations into changes in the plasmon resonance: (1) changes in the nanoparticle geometry, (2) changes in electron density due to changes in the nanoparticle volume, and (3) changes in the interband transition energies due to compression/expansion of the nanoparticle (deformation potential). These mechanisms have been studied in the past to explain the origin of the experimental signals; however, a thorough quantitative connection between the coupling of phonon and plasmon modes has not yet been made, and the separate contribution of each coupling mechanism has not yet been quantified. Here, we present a numerical method to quantitatively determine the coupling between vibrational and plasmon modes in noble-metal nanoparticles of arbitrary geometries and apply it to silver and gold spheres, shells, rods, and cubes in the context of time-resolved measurements. We separately determine the parts of the optical response that are due to shape changes, changes in electron density, and changes in deformation potential. We further show that coupling is, in general, strongest when the regions of largest electric field (plasmon mode) and largest displacement (phonon mode) overlap. These results clarify reported experimental results and should help guide future experiments and potential applications.
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- Aftab Ahmed
- Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University Long Beach , Long Beach, California 90840, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County , Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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Bonafé FP, Aradi B, Guan M, Douglas-Gallardo OA, Lian C, Meng S, Frauenheim T, Sánchez CG. Plasmon-driven sub-picosecond breathing of metal nanoparticles. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:12391-12397. [PMID: 28829098 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr04536k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We present the first real-time atomistic simulation on the quantum dynamics of icosahedral silver nanoparticles under strong laser pulses, using time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) molecular dynamics. We identify the emergence of sub-picosecond breathing-like radial oscillations starting immediately after laser pulse excitation, with increasing amplitude as the field intensity increases. The ultrafast dynamic response of nanoparticles to laser excitation points to a new mechanism other than equilibrium electron-phonon scattering previously assumed, which takes a much longer timescale. A sharp weakening of all bonds during laser excitation is observed, thanks to plasmon damping into excited electrons in anti-bonding states. This sudden weakening of bonds leads to a uniform expansion of the nanoparticles and launches coherent breathing oscillations.
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- Franco P Bonafé
- INFIQC (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Departamento de Química Teórica y Computacional, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina.
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Size Characterisation Method and Detection Enhancement of Plasmonic Nanoparticles in a Pump–Probe System. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/app7080819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Su MN, Dongare PD, Chakraborty D, Zhang Y, Yi C, Wen F, Chang WS, Nordlander P, Sader JE, Halas NJ, Link S. Optomechanics of Single Aluminum Nanodisks. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:2575-2583. [PMID: 28301725 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Aluminum nanostructures support tunable surface plasmon resonances and have become an alternative to gold nanoparticles. Whereas gold is the most-studied plasmonic material, aluminum has the advantage of high earth abundance and hence low cost. In addition to understanding the size and shape tunability of the plasmon resonance, the fundamental relaxation processes in aluminum nanostructures after photoexcitation must be understood to take full advantage of applications such as photocatalysis and photodetection. In this work, we investigate the relaxation following ultrafast pulsed excitation and the launching of acoustic vibrations in individual aluminum nanodisks, using single-particle transient extinction spectroscopy. We find that the transient extinction signal can be assigned to a thermal relaxation of the photoexcited electrons and phonons. The ultrafast heating-induced launching of in-plane acoustic vibrations reveals moderate binding to the glass substrate and is affected by the native aluminum oxide layer. Finally, we compare the behavior of aluminum nanodisks to that of similarly prepared and sized gold nanodisks.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne , Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne , Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Wang L, Sagaguchi T, Okuhata T, Tsuboi M, Tamai N. Electron and Phonon Dynamics in Hexagonal Pd Nanosheets and Ag/Pd/Ag Sandwich Nanoplates. ACS NANO 2017; 11:1180-1188. [PMID: 28036162 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pd and its hybrid nanostructures have attracted considerable attention over the past decade, with both catalytic and plasmonic properties. The electron and phonon properties directly govern conversion efficiencies in applications such as energy collectors and photocatalysts. We report the dynamic processes of electron-phonon coupling and coherent acoustic phonon vibration in hexagonal Pd nanosheets and Ag/Pd/Ag sandwich nanoplates using transient absorption spectroscopy. The electron-phonon coupling constant of Pd nanosheets, GPd-nanosheet (8.7 × 1017 W/(m3·K)) is larger than that of the bulk GPd (5.0 × 1017 W/(m3·K)). The effective coupling constant Geff of Ag/Pd/Ag nanoplates decreases with increasing Ag shell thickness, finally approaching the bulk GAg. The variation of Geff is explained in terms of reduced density of states near Fermi level of Pd nanosheets with 1.8 nm ultrathin thickness. Coherent acoustic phonon vibration in Pd nanosheets is assigned to a fundamental breathing mode, similar to the vibration of benzene. The period increases with increasing Ag shell thickness. For Ag/Pd/Ag nanoplates with 20 nm thick Ag shells, the vibrational mode is ascribed to a quasi-extensional mode. The results show that the modes of the coherent acoustic phonon vibration transform with the geometric variation of Pd nanosheets and Ag/Pd/Ag nanoplates. Our results represent an understanding of quantum-confinement related electron dynamics and bulk-like phonon kinetics in the ultrathin Pd nanosheets and their hybrid nanostructures.
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- Li Wang
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University , Sanda 669-1337, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University , Sanda 669-1337, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University , Sanda 669-1337, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University , Sanda 669-1337, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University , Sanda 669-1337, Japan
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Jean C, Belliard L, Cornelius TW, Thomas O, Pennec Y, Cassinelli M, Toimil-Molares ME, Perrin B. Spatiotemporal Imaging of the Acoustic Field Emitted by a Single Copper Nanowire. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:6592-6598. [PMID: 27657670 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The monochromatic and geometrically anisotropic acoustic field generated by 400 and 120 nm diameter copper nanowires simply dropped on a 10 μm silicon membrane is investigated in transmission using three-dimensional time-resolved femtosecond pump-probe experiments. Two pump-probe time-resolved experiments are carried out at the same time on both sides of the silicon substrate. In reflection, the first radial breathing mode of the nanowire is excited and detected. In transmission, the longitudinal and shear waves are observed. The longitudinal signal is followed by a monochromatic component associated with the relaxation of the nanowire's first radial breathing mode. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations are performed and accurately reproduce the diffracted field. A shape anisotropy resulting from the large aspect ratio of the nanowire is detected in the acoustic field. The orientation of the underlying nanowires is thus acoustically deduced.
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- Cyril Jean
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7588 , Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7588 , Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7334, IM2NP , F-13397 Marseille Cedex, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7334, IM2NP , F-13397 Marseille Cedex, France
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- Institut d'électronique, de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, UFR de physique, Université de Lille-1, Cité scientifique , 59652 Villeneuve-d'Ascq cedex, France
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- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7588 , Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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Hettich M, Jacob K, Ristow O, Schubert M, Bruchhausen A, Gusev V, Dekorsy T. Viscoelastic properties and efficient acoustic damping in confined polymer nano-layers at GHz frequencies. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33471. [PMID: 27633351 PMCID: PMC5025843 DOI: 10.1038/srep33471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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We investigate the viscoelastic properties of confined molecular nano-layers by time resolved optical pump-probe measurements. Access to the elastic properties is provided by the damping time of acoustic eigenmodes of thin metal films deposited on the molecular nano-layers which show a strong dependence on the molecular layer thickness and on the acoustic eigen-mode frequencies. An analytical model including the viscoelastic properties of the molecular layer allows us to obtain the longitudinal sound velocity as well as the acoustic absorption coefficient of the layer. Our experiments and theoretical analysis indicate for the first time that the molecular nano-layers are much more viscous than elastic in the investigated frequency range from 50 to 120 GHz and thus show pronounced acoustic absorption. The longitudinal acoustic wavenumber has nearly equal real and imaginary parts, both increasing proportional to the square root of the frequency. Thus, both acoustic velocity and acoustic absorption are proportional to the square root of frequency and the propagation of compressional/dilatational acoustic waves in the investigated nano-layers is of the diffusional type, similar to the propagation of shear waves in viscous liquids and thermal waves in solids.
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- Mike Hettich
- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany.,Instituto Balseiro &Centro Atomico Bariloche (CNEA), and CONICET, Argentina
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- LUNAM Universités, CNRS, Université du Maine, LAUM UMR-CNRS 6613, Av.O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France
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- Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Germany.,Institute of Technical Physics, German Aerospace Center, Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70568 Stuttgart, Germany
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Guo P, Schaller RD, Ocola LE, Ketterson JB, Chang RPH. Gigahertz Acoustic Vibrations of Elastically Anisotropic Indium-Tin-Oxide Nanorod Arrays. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:5639-5646. [PMID: 27526053 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Active control of light is important for photonic integrated circuits, optical switches, and telecommunications. Coupling light with acoustic vibrations in nanoscale optical resonators offers optical modulation capabilities with high bandwidth and small footprint. Instead of using noble metals, here we introduce indium-tin-oxide nanorod arrays (ITO-NRAs) as the operating media and demonstrate optical modulation covering the visible spectral range (from 360 to 700 nm) with ∼20 GHz bandwidth through the excitation of coherent acoustic vibrations in ITO-NRAs. This broadband modulation results from the collective optical diffraction by the dielectric ITO-NRAs, and a high differential transmission modulation up to 10% is achieved through efficient near-infrared, on-plasmon-resonance pumping. By combining the frequency signatures of the vibrational modes with finite-element simulations, we further determine the anisotropic elastic constants for single-crystalline ITO, which are not known for the bulk phase. This technique to determine elastic constants using coherent acoustic vibrations of uniform nanostructures can be generalized to the study of other inorganic materials.
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- Peijun Guo
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University , 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 440, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 440, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University , 2220 Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Fan G, Jiao W, Yang L, Wu X, Chen M, Gao R, Li Y, Xie B, Liu J, Han M, Song Y, Qu S. Effects of hydriding and ageing of Pd nanoparticles to contact between nanoparticles and quartz and contacts among nanoparticles investigated by the pump-probe technique. Chem Phys Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.08.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Gan Y, Sun Z, Chen Z. Breathing mode vibrations and elastic properties of single-crystal and penta-twinned gold nanorods. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:22590-8. [PMID: 27476532 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03182j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The acoustic vibrations of individual single-crystal and penta-twinned gold nanorods with widths from ∼7 to ∼26 nm are studied using atomic-level simulations and finite element calculations. It is demonstrated that the continuum model in the limit of an infinite rod length could be used to describe the breathing periods of nanorods with an aspect ratio as small as ∼2.5, in combination with bulk material elastic constants. The elastic moduli of gold nanorods are determined via their atomistically simulated extensional periods and the dispersion relation based on long-wavelength approximation. The twinned nanorods become stiffer as the width is reduced, which is in contrast to the size dependence of the modulus in single-crystal nanorods. Further finite element calculations for the breathing periods of nanorods are performed using isotropic elastic constants of bulk gold. We find that the breathing vibrations of the penta-twinned nanorods are more affected by the crystal structure effect than those of single-crystal nanorods, because a smaller range of crystal directions perpendicular to the long axis is involved in the breathing vibrations of twinned nanorods.
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- Yong Gan
- Faculty of Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
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- Faculty of Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Millán EN, Tramontina DR, Urbassek HM, Bringa EM. The elastic-plastic transition in nanoparticle collisions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:3423-9. [PMID: 26456630 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05150a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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When nanoparticles (NPs) collide with low velocities, they interact elastically in the sense that--besides their fusion caused by their mutual van-der-Waals attraction--no defects are generated. We investigate the minimum velocity, vc, necessary for generating defects and inducing plasticity in the NP. The determination of this elastic-plastic threshold is of prime importance for modeling the behavior of granular matter. Using the generic Lennard-Jones interaction potential, we find vc to increase strongly with decreasing radius. Current models do not agree with our simulations, but we provide a model based on dislocation emission in the contact zone that quantitatively describes the size dependence of the elastic-plastic transition.
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- Emmanuel N Millán
- CONICET and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, 5500 Argentina
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- CONICET and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, 5500 Argentina and Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, M5502BZ Argentina
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- Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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- CONICET and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, 5500 Argentina
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Xiang D, Wu J, Rottler J, Gordon R. Threshold for Terahertz Resonance of Nanoparticles in Water. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:3638-3641. [PMID: 27203117 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Nanoparticle vibrations are coupled to light through electrostriction, which gives nonlinear optical scattering. We investigated the acoustic response of 2 nm gold nanoparticles using a nearly degenerate four-wave mixing experimental configuration and show that the nonlinear response suddenly turns on at low powers (<100 mW) for continuous-wave (CW) lasers. The observed nonlinear response is a million times larger than typical electronic nonlinearities. The threshold implies a dramatic change in the quality factor of the vibrating nanoparticles, 4 orders of magnitude larger than usual hydrodynamic theory predicts. It is as if the water is removed altogether, which we speculate is the result of the vibrating particle pushing away the water molecules to form a stable cavity. Because these acoustic vibrations extend to terahertz frequencies, there is potential to harness this effect for high speed optical data processing, as well as to probe the dynamics of proteins all having acoustic modes in this range.
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- Dao Xiang
- Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria , Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
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Nurlaela E, Wang H, Shinagawa T, Flanagan S, Ould-Chikh S, Qureshi M, Mics Z, Sautet P, Le Bahers T, Cánovas E, Bonn M, Takanabe K. Enhanced Kinetics of Hole Transfer and Electrocatalysis during Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution by Cocatalyst Tuning. ACS Catal 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Ela Nurlaela
- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Graduate
School of Material Science in Mainz, University of Mainz, Staudingerweg
9, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, 46 allée d’Italie, 69007 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, 46 allée d’Italie, 69007 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Department
of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department
of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Division
of Physical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 4700 KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Yu S, Zhang J, Tang Y, Ouyang M. Engineering Acoustic Phonons and Electron-Phonon Coupling by the Nanoscale Interface. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:6282-6288. [PMID: 26313532 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Precise engineering of phonon-phonon (ph-ph) and electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions by materials design is essential for an in-depth understanding of thermal, electrical, and optical phenomena as well as new technology breakthrough governed by fundamental physical laws. Due to their characteristic length scale, the ph-ph and e-ph interactions can be dramatically modified by nanoscale spatial confinement, thus opening up opportunities to finely maneuver underlying coupling processes through the interplay of confined size, fundamental length scale, and interface. We have combined ultrafast optical spectroscopy with a series of well-designed nanoscale core-shell structures possessing precisely tunable interface to demonstrate for the first time unambiguous experimental evidence of coherent interfacial phonon coupling between the core and shell constituents. Such interfacially coupled phonons can be impulsively excited through the e-ph interaction, in which the critical e-ph coupling constant is further shown to be monotonically controlled by tuning the configuration and constituent of core-shell nanostructure. Precise tunability of elemental physics processes through nanoscale materials engineering should not only offer fundamental insights into different materials properties but also facilitate design of devices possessing desirable functionality and property with rationally tailored nanostructures as building blocks.
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- Shangjie Yu
- Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and ‡Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Dynamic near-field optical interaction between oscillating nanomechanical structures. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10058. [PMID: 26014599 PMCID: PMC4444852 DOI: 10.1038/srep10058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Near-field optical techniques exploit light-matter interactions at small length scales for mechanical sensing and actuation of nanomechanical structures. Here, we study the optical interaction between two mechanical oscillators—a plasmonic nanofocusing probe-tip supported by a low frequency cantilever, and a high frequency nanomechanical resonator—and leverage their interaction for local detection of mechanical vibrations. The plasmonic nanofocusing probe provides a confined optical source to enhance the interaction between the two oscillators. Dynamic perturbation of the optical cavity between the probe-tip and the resonator leads to nonlinear modulation of the scattered light intensity at the sum and difference of their frequencies. This double-frequency demodulation scheme is explored to suppress unwanted background and to detect mechanical vibrations with a minimum detectable displacement sensitivity of 0.45 pm/Hz1/2, which is limited by shot noise and electrical noise. We explore the demodulation scheme for imaging the bending vibration mode shape of the resonator with a lateral spatial resolution of 20 nm. We also demonstrate the time-resolved aspect of the local optical interaction by recording the ring-down vibrations of the resonator at frequencies of up to 129 MHz. The near-field optical technique is promising for studying dynamic mechanical processes in individual nanostructures.
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Chang WS, Wen F, Chakraborty D, Su MN, Zhang Y, Shuang B, Nordlander P, Sader JE, Halas NJ, Link S. Tuning the acoustic frequency of a gold nanodisk through its adhesion layer. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7022. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Visualization of nanocrystal breathing modes at extreme strains. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6577. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Ng MY, Ho IL, Chang YC. Crystallinity effects on scaling properties of photoinduced modes in silver nanoprisms. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:074707. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4908160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Crut A, Maioli P, Del Fatti N, Vallée F. Time-domain investigation of the acoustic vibrations of metal nanoparticles: size and encapsulation effects. ULTRASONICS 2015; 56:98-108. [PMID: 24656934 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2014.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The acoustic vibrations of single-metal and multi-material nanoparticles are studied by ultrafast pump-probe optical spectroscopy and described in the context of the continuous elastic model. The applicability of this model to the small size range, down to one nanometer, is discussed in the light of recent experimental data and ab initio calculations. Investigations of multi-material nano-objects stress the impact of the intra-particle interface on the characteristics of their vibrational modes, also yielding information on the composition and spatial distribution of the constituting materials.
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- Aurélien Crut
- FemtoNanoOptics Group, Institut Lumière Matière UMR5306, Université Lyon 1-CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group, Institut Lumière Matière UMR5306, Université Lyon 1-CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group, Institut Lumière Matière UMR5306, Université Lyon 1-CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- FemtoNanoOptics Group, Institut Lumière Matière UMR5306, Université Lyon 1-CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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Sauceda HE, Garzón IL. Vibrational properties and specific heat of core–shell Ag–Au icosahedral nanoparticles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:28054-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00232j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The vibrational density of states (VDOS) of metal nanoparticles can be a fingerprint of their geometrical structure and determine their low-temperature thermal properties.
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- Huziel E. Sauceda
- Instituto de Física
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 01000 México, D. F
- Mexico
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- Instituto de Física
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 01000 México, D. F
- Mexico
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Jean C, Belliard L, Cornelius TW, Thomas O, Toimil-Molares ME, Cassinelli M, Becerra L, Perrin B. Direct Observation of Gigahertz Coherent Guided Acoustic Phonons in Free-Standing Single Copper Nanowires. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:4100-4104. [PMID: 26278939 DOI: 10.1021/jz502170j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We report on gigahertz acoustic phonon waveguiding in free-standing single copper nanowires studied by femtosecond transient reflectivity measurements. The results are discussed on the basis of the semianalytical resolution of the Pochhammer and Chree equation. The spreading of the generated Gaussian wave packet of two different modes is derived analytically and compared with the observed oscillations of the sample reflectivity. These experiments provide a unique way to independently obtain geometrical and material characterization. This direct observation of coherent guided acoustic phonons in a single nano-object is also the first step toward nanolateral size acoustic transducer and comprehensive studies of the thermal properties of nanowires.
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- Cyril Jean
- †Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
- ‡CNRS, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- †Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
- ‡CNRS, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- ¶Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7334, IM2NP, F-13397 Marseille Cedex, France
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- ¶Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7334, IM2NP, F-13397 Marseille Cedex, France
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- §GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- †Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
- ‡CNRS, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- †Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
- ‡CNRS, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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Ultrafast acousto-plasmonic control and sensing in complex nanostructures. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4042. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2014] [Accepted: 05/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Major TA, Lo SS, Yu K, Hartland GV. Time-Resolved Studies of the Acoustic Vibrational Modes of Metal and Semiconductor Nano-objects. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:866-874. [PMID: 26274080 DOI: 10.1021/jz4027248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Over the past decade, there have been a number of transient absorption studies of the acoustic vibrational modes of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles. This Perspective provides an overview of this work. The way that the frequencies of the observed modes depend on the size and shape of the particles is described, along with their damping. Future research directions are also discussed, especially how these measurements provide information about the way nano-objects interact with their environment.
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- Todd A Major
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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Bullard EC, Li J, Lilley CR, Mulvaney P, Roukes ML, Sader JE. Dynamic similarity of oscillatory flows induced by nanomechanical resonators. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:015501. [PMID: 24483908 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.015501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Rarefied gas flows generated by resonating nanomechanical structures pose a significant challenge to theoretical analysis and physical interpretation. The inherent noncontinuum nature of such flows obviates the use of classical theories, such as the Navier-Stokes equations, requiring more sophisticated physical treatments for their characterization. In this Letter, we present a universal dynamic similarity theorem: The quality factor of a nanoscale mechanical resonator at gas pressure P0 is α times that of a scaled-up microscale resonator at a reduced pressure α P0, where α is the ratio of nanoscale and microscale resonator sizes. This holds rigorously for any nanomechanical structure at all degrees of rarefaction, from continuum through to transition and free molecular flows. The theorem is demonstrated for a series of nanomechanical cantilever devices of different size, for which precise universal behavior is observed. This result is of significance for research aimed at probing the fundamental nature of rarefied gas flows and gas-structure interactions at nanometer length scales.
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- Elizabeth C Bullard
- Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Crut A, Maioli P, Del Fatti N, Vallée F. Optical absorption and scattering spectroscopies of single nano-objects. Chem Soc Rev 2014; 43:3921-56. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60367a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Pelton M, Chakraborty D, Malachosky E, Guyot-Sionnest P, Sader JE. Viscoelastic flows in simple liquids generated by vibrating nanostructures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:244502. [PMID: 24483667 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.244502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Newtonian fluid mechanics, in which the shear stress is proportional to the strain rate, is synonymous with the flow of simple liquids such as water. We report the measurement and theoretical verification of non-Newtonian, viscoelastic flow phenomena produced by the high-frequency (20 GHz) vibration of gold nanoparticles immersed in water-glycerol mixtures. The observed viscoelasticity is not due to molecular confinement, but is a bulk continuum effect arising from the short time scale of vibration. This represents the first direct mechanical measurement of the intrinsic viscoelastic properties of simple bulk liquids, and opens a new paradigm for understanding extremely high frequency fluid mechanics, nanoscale sensing technologies, and biophysical processes.
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- Matthew Pelton
- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia and Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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