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Optical Properties of Plasma Dimer Nanoparticles for Solar Energy Absorption. NANOMATERIALS 2021; 11:nano11102722. [PMID: 34685162 PMCID: PMC8540588 DOI: 10.3390/nano11102722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Plasmonic nanofluids have excellent optical properties in solar energy absorption and have been widely studied in solar thermal conversion technology. The absorption of the visible region of solar energy by ordinary metal nanoparticles is usually limited to a narrow resonance band, so it is necessary to enhance the coupling effect of nanoparticles in the visible spectrum region to improve absorption efficiency. However, it is still a difficult task to improve solar energy absorption by adjusting the structure and performance of nanoparticles. In this paper, a plasma dimer Ag nanoparticle is proposed to excite localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Compared with an ordinary Ag nanoparticle in the visible region, the plasmonic Ag dimer nanoparticle produces more absorption peaks and broader absorption bands, which can broaden solar energy absorption. By analyzing the electromagnetic field of the nanoparticle, the resonance mode of the plasma dimer is discussed. The effects of the geometric dimensions of the nanoparticle and the embedding of two spheres on the optical properties are studied. In addition, the effects of a trimer and its special structure on the optical properties are also analyzed. The results show that the proposed plasma dimer Ag nanoparticle has broad prospects for application in solar thermal conversion technology.
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Nagarajan A, Panchanathan AP, Chelliah P, Satoh H, Inokawa H. FDTD Study on Evolution of Trimer Silver@Silica Nanospheres to Dimer for SERS Characteristics. PLASMONICS (NORWELL, MASS.) 2021; 17:647-652. [PMID: 34664011 PMCID: PMC8514207 DOI: 10.1007/s11468-021-01554-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Light enhancement occurs strongly within the plasmonic clusters by interaction with surface plasmons. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) characteristics of a series of silver@silica trimer core-shell (CS) nanosphere (NS) clusters are investigated in this paper. It is significant to understand the electric field (EF) enhancement mechanism behind the SERS technique. The effect of symmetry breaking is studied for the series starting from the highly symmetric trimer cluster and transformed to linear dimer geometry which progresses through the gradual reduction in the vertex NS. The optical activity such as the evolution of LSPR peak is discussed, the formation of hot spots is demonstrated and the strength of the local EF enhancement is calculated and correlated with the plasmon dipolar modes by using plasmon hybridization theory to understand the underlying physical concepts.
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- Anitharaj Nagarajan
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu India 603203
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu India 603203
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- Department of Physics, R.K.M. Vivekananda College, Chennai, India 600 004
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- Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011 Japan
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- Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011 Japan
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Thrift WJ, Nguyen CQ, Darvishzadeh-Varcheie M, Zare S, Sharac N, Sanderson RN, Dupper TJ, Hochbaum AI, Capolino F, Abdolhosseini Qomi MJ, Ragan R. Driving Chemical Reactions in Plasmonic Nanogaps with Electrohydrodynamic Flow. ACS NANO 2017; 11:11317-11329. [PMID: 29053246 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Nanoparticles from colloidal solution-with controlled composition, size, and shape-serve as excellent building blocks for plasmonic devices and metasurfaces. However, understanding hierarchical driving forces affecting the geometry of oligomers and interparticle gap spacings is still needed to fabricate high-density architectures over large areas. Here, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow is used as a long-range driving force to enable carbodiimide cross-linking between nanospheres and produces oligomers exhibiting sub-nanometer gap spacing over mm2 areas. Anhydride linkers between nanospheres are observed via surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The anhydride linkers are cleavable via nucleophilic substitution and enable placement of nucleophilic molecules in electromagnetic hotspots. Atomistic simulations elucidate that the transient attractive force provided by EHD flow is needed to provide a sufficient residence time for anhydride cross-linking to overcome slow reaction kinetics. This synergistic analysis shows assembly involves an interplay between long-range driving forces increasing nanoparticle-nanoparticle interactions and probability that ligands are in proximity to overcome activation energy barriers associated with short-range chemical reactions. Absorption spectroscopy and electromagnetic full-wave simulations show that variations in nanogap spacing have a greater influence on optical response than variations in close-packed oligomer geometry. The EHD flow-anhydride cross-linking assembly method enables close-packed oligomers with uniform gap spacings that produce uniform SERS enhancement factors. These results demonstrate the efficacy of colloidal driving forces to selectively enable chemical reactions leading to future assembly platforms for large-area nanodevices.
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- William J Thrift
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2575, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2575, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2625, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2175, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2575, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2625, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine , Irvine, California 92697-2575, United States
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Darvishzadeh-Varcheie M, Guclu C, Ragan R, Boyraz O, Capolino F. Electric field enhancement with plasmonic colloidal nanoantennas excited by a silicon nitride waveguide. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:28337-28352. [PMID: 27958544 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.028337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We investigate the feasibility of CMOS-compatible optical structures to develop novel integrated spectroscopy systems. We show that local field enhancement is achievable utilizing dimers of plasmonic nanospheres that can be assembled from colloidal solutions on top of a CMOS-compatible optical waveguide. The resonant dimer nanoantennas are excited by modes guided in the integrated silicon nitride waveguide. Simulations show that 100-fold electric field enhancement builds up in the dimer gap as compared to the waveguide evanescent field amplitude at the same location. We investigate how the field enhancement depends on dimer location, orientation, distance and excited waveguide mode.
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Chung T, Koker T, Pinaud F. Split-GFP: SERS Enhancers in Plasmonic Nanocluster Probes. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2016; 12:5891-5901. [PMID: 27608276 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201601631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The assembly of plasmonic metal nanoparticles into hot spot surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanocluster probes is a powerful, yet challenging approach for ultrasensitive biosensing. Scaffolding strategies based on self-complementary peptides and proteins are of increasing interest for these assemblies, but the electronic and the photonic properties of such hybrid nanoclusters remain difficult to predict and optimize. Here, split-green fluorescence protein (sGFP) fragments are used as molecular glue and the GFP chromophore is used as a Raman reporter to assemble a variety of gold nanoparticle (AuNP) clusters and explore their plasmonic properties by numerical modeling. It is shown that GFP seeding of plasmonic nanogaps in AuNP/GFP hybrid nanoclusters increases near-field dipolar couplings between AuNPs and provides SERS enhancement factors above 108 . Among the different nanoclusters studied, AuNP/GFP chains allow near-infrared SERS detection of the GFP chromophore imidazolinone/exocyclic CC vibrational mode with theoretical enhancement factors of 108 -109 . For larger AuNP/GFP assemblies, the presence of non-GFP seeded nanogaps between tightly packed nanoparticles reduces near-field enhancements at Raman active hot spots, indicating that excessive clustering can decrease SERS amplifications. This study provides rationales to optimize the controlled assembly of hot spot SERS nanoprobes for remote biosensing using Raman reporters that act as molecular glue between plasmonic nanoparticles.
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- Taerin Chung
- Department of Biological Sciences, Dana and David Dornsife College of LettersArts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dana and David Dornsife College of LettersArts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dana and David Dornsife College of LettersArts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Dana and David Dornsife College of LettersArts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dana and David Dornsife College of LettersArts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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Radziuk D, Moehwald H. Prospects for plasmonic hot spots in single molecule SERS towards the chemical imaging of live cells. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:21072-93. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04946b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Single molecule surface enhanced Raman scattering (SM-SERS) is a highly local effect occurring at sharp edges, interparticle junctions and crevices or other geometries with a sharp nanoroughness of plasmonic nanostructures (“hot spots”) for an analyte detection.
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- Darya Radziuk
- Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
- Department of Interfaces
- Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
- Department of Interfaces
- Germany
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