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Jiang P, Zheng W, Li X, Zhang L, Liu Y, Wang Y, Li Y, Gao Y, Yang H, Liu Y, Gong Q, Wu C. Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Electron Pulses Emitted from Plasmonic Nanostructures. Nano Lett 2023; 23:7327-7333. [PMID: 37535438 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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We experimentally study photoemission from gold nanodisk arrays using space-, time-, and energy-resolved photoemission electron microscopy. When excited by a plasmonic resonant infrared (IR) laser pulse, plasmonic hotspots are generated owing to local surface plasmon resonance. Photoelectrons emitted from each plasmonic hotspot form a nanoscale and ultrashort electron pulse. When the system is excited by an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) laser pulse, a uniformly distributed photoelectron cloud is formed across the sample surface. When excited by the IR and EUV laser pulses together, both the photoemission image and kinetic energy vary significantly for the IR laser-generated electrons depending on the time delay between the two laser pulses. These observations are well explained by the Coulomb interaction with the EUV laser-generated electron cloud. Our study offers a feasible approach to manipulate the energy of electron pulse emitted from a plasmonic nanostructure on an ultrafast time scale.
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- Pengzuo Jiang
- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong, Jiangsu 226010, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong, Jiangsu 226010, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong, Jiangsu 226010, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong, Jiangsu 226010, China
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Bonyár A, Kovács R. Towards Digital Twins of Plasmonic Sensors: Constructing the Complex Numerical Model of a Plasmonic Sensor Based on Hexagonally Arranged Gold Nanoparticles. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2023; 13:2044. [PMID: 37513055 PMCID: PMC10383685 DOI: 10.3390/nano13142044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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In this work, we aim to design the digital twin of a plasmonic sensor based on hexagonally arranged ellipsoidal gold nanoparticles fixed to a glass substrate. Based on electron microscopy images of three experimentally realized nanoparticle arrangement types, we constructed numerical models in environments based on finite element method (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM), namely COMSOL Multiphysics for FEM and the MNPBEM Matlab Toolbox for BEM. Models with nonperiodic and periodic boundary conditions with different unit cells were constructed to study the plasmonic behavior of both the single ellipsoidal particles and the hexagonal nanoparticle arrangements. The effect of the geometrical parameters, namely the interparticle distance, the nanoparticle diameter and thickness, on the resulting LSPR peak positions and bulk refractive index sensitivities were studied in detail, also taking into account the effect of the SiO2 substrate (pillars) under the ellipsoidal particles. We have demonstrated that by optimizing the models, the LSPR peak positions (and sensitivities) can match the experimentally measured values within 1 nm (nm/RIU) precision. The comparison of simulation conditions and the detailed discussion of the effect of the geometrical parameters and used gold dielectric functions on the obtained sensitivities can be very beneficial for the optimization of plasmonic sensor constructions through numerical simulations.
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- Attila Bonyár
- Department of Electronics Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
- Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Electronics Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
- Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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He H, Wei X, He Y, Liang Y, Fang Y, Peng W. Plasmonic Resonance Coupling of Nanodisk Array/Thin Film on the Optical Fiber Tip for Integrated and Miniaturized Sensing Detection. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:4163. [PMID: 37112517 PMCID: PMC10142116 DOI: 10.3390/s23084163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Fiber-optic surface plasmon resonance (FOSPR) sensing technology has become an appealing candidate in biochemical sensing applications due to its distinguished capability of remote and point-of-care detection. However, FOSPR sensing devices with a flat plasmonic film on the optical fiber tip are seldom proposed with most reports concentrating on fiber sidewalls. In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate the plasmonic coupled structure of a gold (Au) nanodisk array and a thin film integrated into the fiber facet, enabling the excitation of the plasmon mode on the planar gold film by strong coupling. This plasmonic fiber sensor is fabricated by the ultraviolet (UV) curing adhesive transferring technology from a planar substrate to a fiber facet. The experimental results demonstrate that the fabricated sensing probe has a bulk refractive index sensitivity of 137.28 nm/RIU and exhibits moderate surface sensitivity by measuring the spatial localization of its excited plasmon mode on Au film by layer-by-layer self-assembly technology. Furthermore, the fabricated plasmonic sensing probe enables the detection of bovine serum albumin (BSA) biomolecule with a detection limit of 19.35 μM. The demonstrated fiber probe here provides a potential strategy to integrate plasmonic nanostructure on the fiber facet with excellent sensing performance, which has a unique application prospect in the detection of remote, in situ, and in vivo invasion.
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Jiang W, Low BQL, Long R, Low J, Loh H, Tang KY, Chai CHT, Zhu H, Zhu H, Li Z, Loh XJ, Xiong Y, Ye E. Active Site Engineering on Plasmonic Nanostructures for Efficient Photocatalysis. ACS Nano 2023; 17:4193-4229. [PMID: 36802513 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c12314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plasmonic nanostructures have shown immense potential in photocatalysis because of their distinct photochemical properties associated with tunable photoresponses and strong light-matter interactions. The introduction of highly active sites is essential to fully exploit the potential of plasmonic nanostructures in photocatalysis, considering the inferior intrinsic activities of typical plasmonic metals. This review focuses on active site-engineered plasmonic nanostructures with enhanced photocatalytic performance, wherein the active sites are classified into four types (i.e., metallic sites, defect sites, ligand-grafted sites, and interface sites). The synergy between active sites and plasmonic nanostructures in photocatalysis is discussed in detail after briefly introducing the material synthesis and characterization methods. Active sites can promote the coupling of solar energy harvested by plasmonic metal to catalytic reactions in the form of local electromagnetic fields, hot carriers, and photothermal heating. Moreover, efficient energy coupling potentially regulates the reaction pathway by facilitating the excited state formation of reactants, changing the status of active sites, and creating additional active sites using photoexcited plasmonic metals. Afterward, the application of active site-engineered plasmonic nanostructures in emerging photocatalytic reactions is summarized. Finally, a summary and perspective of the existing challenges and future opportunities are presented. This review aims to deliver some insights into plasmonic photocatalysis from the perspective of active sites, expediting the discovery of high-performance plasmonic photocatalysts.
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- Wenbin Jiang
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
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Li J, Liu J, Guo Z, Chang Z, Guo Y. Engineering Plasmonic Environments for 2D Materials and 2D-Based Photodetectors. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27092807. [PMID: 35566157 PMCID: PMC9100532 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27092807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two-dimensional layered materials are considered ideal platforms to study novel small-scale optoelectronic devices due to their unique electronic structures and fantastic physical properties. However, it is urgent to further improve the light–matter interaction in these materials because their light absorption efficiency is limited by the atomically thin thickness. One of the promising approaches is to engineer the plasmonic environment around 2D materials for modulating light–matter interaction in 2D materials. This method greatly benefits from the advances in the development of nanofabrication and out-plane van der Waals interaction of 2D materials. In this paper, we review a series of recent works on 2D materials integrated with plasmonic environments, including the plasmonic-enhanced photoluminescence quantum yield, strong coupling between plasmons and excitons, nonlinear optics in plasmonic nanocavities, manipulation of chiral optical signals in hybrid nanostructures, and the improvement of the performance of optoelectronic devices based on composite systems.
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- Jianmei Li
- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
- Correspondence: (J.L.); (Y.G.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Correspondence: (J.L.); (Y.G.)
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Su D, Zhang XY, Chen XY, Wang SJ, Wan QD, Zhang T. Centrifugation-induced assembly of dense hotspots based SERS substrate for enhanced Raman scattering and quenched fluorescence. Nanotechnology 2022; 33:235304. [PMID: 35196262 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac57d3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Hanging (aggregation stuck to the centrifugal tube) in the centrifugation process is always regarded as an unwanted condition. In this work, we develop a centrifugation-induced assembly of dense hotspots surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates from the hanging phenomenon. We discovered interesting sintering-resistant behavior (maintain the sharp nanotip features) of star-like Au nanoparticles after centrifugation-induced assembly, which is in stark contrast with the sintering phenomenon of sphere-like nanoparticles. We also found that one side of centrifugal-induced Au assemblies is two-dimensional (2D, root mean square (rms) roughness down to ∼10 nm), while the other is three-dimensional (3D, rms roughness more than 100 nm). The close-packed feature of the Au assemblies makes them candidates as dense hotspots based SERS substrates. Through systematic investigation of SERS performance of centrifugation-induced assemblies with different morphology (star-like and sphere-like, 2D and 3D), it was found that the 3D side of star-like Au nanoparticles assembly exhibits the highest SERS enhancement together with quenched fluorescence. The star-like SERS substrate also displays high detection uniformity (with 10-7M Rhodamine 6G) and a low detection limit (down to 10-12M Rhodamine 6G).
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- Dan Su
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
- Suzhou Key Laboratory of Metal Nano-Optoelectronic Technology, Southeast University Suzhou Campus, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China
- Suzhou Key Laboratory of Metal Nano-Optoelectronic Technology, Southeast University Suzhou Campus, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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Bai S, Hu A, Hu Y, Ma Y, Obata K, Sugioka K. Plasmonic Superstructure Arrays Fabricated by Laser Near-Field Reduction for Wide-Range SERS Analysis of Fluorescent Materials. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2022; 12:nano12060970. [PMID: 35335783 PMCID: PMC8950659 DOI: 10.3390/nano12060970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enables trace-detection for biosensing and environmental monitoring. Optimized enhancement of SERS can be achieved when the energy of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is close to the energy of the Raman excitation wavelength. The LSPR can be tuned using a plasmonic superstructure array with controlled periods. In this paper, we develop a new technique based on laser near-field reduction to fabricate a superstructure array, which provides distinct features in the formation of periodic structures with hollow nanoclusters and flexible control of the LSPR in fewer steps than current techniques. Fabrication involves irradiation of a continuous wave laser or femtosecond laser onto a monolayer of self-assembled silica microspheres to grow silver nanoparticles along the silica microsphere surfaces by laser near-field reduction. The LSPR of superstructure array can be flexibly tuned to match the Raman excitation wavelengths from the visible to the infrared regions using different diameters of silica microspheres. The unique nanostructure formed can contribute to an increase in the sensitivity of SERS sensing. The fabricated superstructure array thus offers superior characteristics for the quantitative analysis of fluorescent perfluorooctanoic acid with a wide detection range from 11 ppb to 400 ppm.
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- Shi Bai
- Advanced Laser Processing Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan; (S.B.); (K.O.)
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- Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1512 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA;
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- Institute of Laser Engineering, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, 100 Pingle Yuan, Beijing 100124, China;
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- School of Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China;
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- Advanced Laser Processing Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan; (S.B.); (K.O.)
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- Advanced Laser Processing Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan; (S.B.); (K.O.)
- Correspondence:
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Wang L, Patskovsky S, Gauthier-Soumis B, Meunier M. Porous Au-Ag Nanoparticles from Galvanic Replacement Applied as Single-Particle SERS Probe for Quantitative Monitoring. Small 2022; 18:e2105209. [PMID: 34761520 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202105209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Plasmonic nanostructures have raised the interest of biomedical applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). To improve the enhancement and produce sensitive SERS probes, porous Au-Ag alloy nanoparticles (NPs) are synthesized by dealloying Au-Ag alloy NP-precursors with Au or Ag core in aqueous colloidal environment through galvanic replacement reaction. The novel designed core-shell Au-Ag alloy NP-precursors facilitate controllable synthesis of porous nanostructure, and dealloying degree during the reaction has significant effect on structural and spectral properties of dealloyed porous NPs. Narrow-dispersed dealloyed NPs are obtained using NPs of Au/Ag ratio from 10/90 to 40/60 with Au and Ag core to produce solid core@porous shell and porous nanoshells, having rough surface, hollowness, and porosity around 30-60%. The clean nanostructure from colloidal synthesis exhibits a redshifted plasmon peak up to near-infrared region, and the large accessible surface induces highly localized surface plasmon resonance and generates robust SERS activity. Thus, the porous NPs produce intensely enhanced Raman signal up to 68-fold higher than 100 nm AuNP enhancement at single-particle level, and the estimated Raman enhancement around 7800, showing the potential for highly sensitive SERS probes. The single-particle SERS probes are effectively demonstrated in quantitative monitoring of anticancer drug Doxorubicin release.
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- Lu Wang
- Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada
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- Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada
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- Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada
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- Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada
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Lee E, Ryu S. Nucleation and Growth-Controlled Facile Fabrication of Gold Nanoporous Structures for Highly Sensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Applications. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2021; 11:nano11061463. [PMID: 34205886 PMCID: PMC8227128 DOI: 10.3390/nano11061463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The fabrication of porous metal structures usually involves complicated processes such as lithography or etching. In this study, a facile and clean method based on thermal evaporation at high pressure is introduced, by which a highly porous, black colored structure of Au can be formed through the control of homogeneous nucleation and growth during evaporation. The deposited films have different morphologies, from columnar to nanoporous structures, depending on the working pressure. These porous structures consist of Au nanoparticle aggregates, and a large number of nano-gaps are found among the nanoparticles. Thus, these structures indicate a much higher intensity of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) when compared with commercial SERS substrates. The SERS intensity depends on the working pressure and thickness. Even circumstances that can induce agglomeration of nanoparticle aggregates do not deteriorate the sensitivity of SERS. These nanoporous structures based on high-pressure thermal evaporation are expected to provide a new platform for the development of low-cost and highly sensitive chemical sensors.
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Zhao DW, Yu MY, Zheng LL, Li M, Dai SJ, Chen DC, Lee TC, Yun DQ. Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Using a Dual Electron Transport Layer of Gold Nanoparticles Embedded in Anatase TiO 2 Films. ACS Appl Energy Mater 2020; 3:9568-9575. [PMID: 33134879 PMCID: PMC7592386 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Incorporating plasmonic nanostructures is a promising strategy to enhance both the optical and electrical characteristics of photovoltaic devices via more efficient harvesting of incident light. Herein, we report a facile fabrication scheme at low temperature for producing gold nanoparticles embedded in anatase TiO2 films, which can simultaneously improve the efficiency and stability of n-i-p planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The PSCs based on rigid and flexible substrates with 0.2 wt % Au-TiO2/TiO2 dual electron transport layers (ETLs) achieved power conversion efficiencies up to 20.31 and 15.36%, superior to that of devices with TiO2 as a single ETL. Moreover, 0.2 wt % Au-TiO2/TiO2 devices demonstrated significant stability in light soaking, which is attributed to improved light absorption, low charge recombination loss, and enhanced carrier transport, and extraction with the plasmonic Au-TiO2/TiO2 dual ETL. The present work improves the practicability of high-performance and flexible PSCs by engineering the photogenerated carrier dynamics at the interface.
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- Da-Wei Zhao
- College
of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College
of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College
of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College
of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Xiamen
Branch of Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute, Xiamen 361006, China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London (UCL), London WC1H 0AJ, U.K.
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- College
of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Jeong S, Kim MW, Jo YR, Kim NY, Kang D, Lee SY, Yim SY, Kim BJ, Kim JH. Hollow Porous Gold Nanoshells with Controlled Nanojunctions for Highly Tunable Plasmon Resonances and Intense Field Enhancements for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11:44458-44465. [PMID: 31718128 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b16983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plasmonic metal nanostructures with nanogaps have attracted great interest owing to their controllable optical properties and intense electromagnetic fields that can be useful for a variety of applications, but precise and reliable control of nanogaps in three-dimensional nanostructures remains a great challenge. Here, we report the control of nanojunctions of hollow porous gold nanoshell (HPAuNS) structures by a facile oxygen plasma-etching process and the influence of changes in nanocrevices of the interparticle junction on the optical and sensing characteristics of HPAuNSs. We demonstrate a high tunability of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) peaks and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection of rhodamine 6G (R6G) using HPAuNS structures with different nanojunctions by varying the degree of gold sintering. As the neck region of the nanojunction is further sintered, the main LSPR peak shifts from 785 to 1350 nm with broadening because the charge transfer plasmon mode becomes more dominant than the dipolar plasmon mode, resulting from the increase of conductance at the interparticle junctions. In addition, it is demonstrated that an increase in the sharpness of the nanojunction neck can enhance the SERS enhancement factor of the HPAuNS by up to 4.8-fold. This enhancement can be ascribed to the more intense local electromagnetic fields at the sharper nanocrevices of interparticle junctions. The delicate change of nanojunction structures in HPAuNSs can significantly affect their optical spectrum and electromagnetic field intensity, which are critical for their practical use in a SERS-based analytical sensor as well as multiple-wavelength compatible applications.
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Here, we explore the extended utility of two important functional biomolecules, DNA and protein, by hybridizing them through avidin-biotin conjugation. We report a simple yet scalable technique of successive magnetic separations to synthesize traptavidin-DNA conjugates with four distinct DNA binding sites that can be used as a supramolecular building block for programmable assembly of nanostructures. Using this nanoassembly platform, we fabricate several different plasmonic nanostructures with various metallic as well as semiconductor nanoparticles in predetermined ways. We also use the platform to construct dendrimer nanostructures using valency-controlled traptavidin-DNA conjugates in a programmable manner. These results suggest that our protein-DNA supramolecular building blocks would make a significant contribution to the assembly of multicomponent and complex nanostructures for numerous contemporary and future applications from molecular imaging to drug delivery.
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- Young-Youb Kim
- Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
- Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology , Suwon , Gyeonggi-do 16229 , South Korea
- Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC) , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) is capable of identifying molecular fingerprints by resonant detection of infrared vibrational modes through the coupling with plasmonic modes of metallic nanostructures. However, SEIRA for on-chip gas sensing is still not very successful due to the intrinsically weak light-matter interaction between photons and gas molecules and the technical challenges in accumulating sufficient gas species in the vicinity of the spatially localized enhanced electric field, namely, the "hot-spots", generated through plasmonics. In this paper, we present a suspended silicon nitride (Si3N4) nanomembrane device by integrating plasmonic nanopatch gold antennas with metal-organic framework (MOF), which can largely adsorb carbon dioxide (CO2) through its nanoporous structure. Unlike conventional SEIRA sensing relying on highly localized hot-spots of plasmonic nanoantennas or nanoparticles, the device reported in this paper engineered the coupled surface plasmon polaritons in the metal-Si3N4 and metal-MOF interfaces to achieve strong optical field enhancement across the entire MOF film. We successfully demonstrated on-chip gas sensing of CO2 with more than 1800× enhancement factors by combining the concentration effect from the 2.7 μm MOF thin film and the optical field enhancement of the plasmonic nanopatch antennas.
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- National Energy Technology Lab, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
- AECOM, P.O.
Box 618, South Park, Pennsylvania 15216, United States
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- National Energy Technology Lab, United States Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States
- Materials
Science and Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Liang Y, Zhang H, Zhu W, Agrawal A, Lezec H, Li L, Peng W, Zou Y, Lu Y, Xu T. Subradiant Dipolar Interactions in Plasmonic Nanoring Resonator Array for Integrated Label-Free Biosensing. ACS Sens 2017; 2:1796-1804. [PMID: 29139285 PMCID: PMC5834653 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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With the development of advanced nanofabrication technologies over the past decade, plasmonic nanostructures have attracted wide attention for their potential in label-free biosensing applications. However, the sensing performance of nanostructured plasmonic sensors is primarily limited by the broad-line-width features with low peak-to-dip signal ratio in the extinction spectra that result from strong radiative damping. Here, we propose and systematically investigate the in-plane and out-of-plane dipolar interactions in an array of plasmonic nanoring resonators that are from the spatial combination of classic nanohole and nanodisk structures. Originating from the strong coupling of the dipolar modes from parent nanohole and nanodisk structures, the subradiant lattice plasmon resonance in the nanoring resonator array exhibits narrow-line width spectral features with high peak-to-dip signal ratio and strong near-field electromagnetic enhancement, making it an ideal platform for high-sensitivity chemical and biomedical sensing. We experimentally demonstrate that the plasmonic nanoring resonator array can be used for high-sensitivity refractive index sensing and real-time monitoring of biomolecular specific binding interactions at nanomolar concentration. Moreover, due to its simple normal incident illumination scheme and polarization independent optical response, we further transfer the plasmonic nanoring resonator array onto the optical fiber tip to demonstrate an integrated and miniaturized platform for label-free remote biosensing, which implies that the plasmonic nanoring resonator array may be a potential candidate for developing high performance and highly integrated photonic biosensing systems.
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- Yuzhang Liang
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Bharti A, Agrawal AK, Singh B, Gautam S, Goyal N. Surface plasmon band tailoring of plasmonic nanostructure under the effect of water radiolysis by synchrotron radiation. J Synchrotron Radiat 2017; 24:1209-1217. [PMID: 29091064 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577517013169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plasmonic metal nanostructures have a significant impact on a diverse domain of fields, including photocatalysis, antibacterial, drug vector, biosensors, photovoltaic cell, optical and electronic devices. Metal nanoparticles (MNps) are the simplest nanostructure promising ultrahigh stability, ease of manufacturing and tunable optical response. Silver nanoparticles (AgNp) dominate in the class of MNps because of their relatively high abundance, chemical activity and unique physical properties. Although MNps offer the desired physical properties, most of the synthesis and fabrication methods lag at the electronic grade due to an unbidden secondary product as a result of the direct chemical reduction process. In this paper, a facile protocol is presented for fabricating high-yield in situ plasmonic AgNps under monochromatic X-rays irradiation, without the use of any chemical reducing agent which prevents the formation of secondary products. The ascendancy of this protocol is to produce high quantitative yield with control over the reaction rate, particle size and localized surface plasmon resonance response, and also to provide the feasibility for in situ characterization. The role of X-ray energy, beam flux and integrated dose towards the fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures has been studied. This experiment extends plasmonic research and provides avenues for upgrading production technologies of MNps.
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- Amardeep Bharti
- Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Dr S. S. Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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Lee SM, Dhar P, Chen H, Montenegro A, Liaw L, Kang D, Gai B, Benderskii AV, Yoon J. Synergistically Enhanced Performance of Ultrathin Nanostructured Silicon Solar Cells Embedded in Plasmonically Assisted, Multispectral Luminescent Waveguides. ACS Nano 2017; 11:4077-4085. [PMID: 28402101 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Ultrathin silicon solar cells fabricated by anisotropic wet chemical etching of single-crystalline wafer materials represent an attractive materials platform that could provide many advantages for realizing high-performance, low-cost photovoltaics. However, their intrinsically limited photovoltaic performance arising from insufficient absorption of low-energy photons demands careful design of light management to maximize the efficiency and preserve the cost-effectiveness of solar cells. Herein we present an integrated flexible solar module of ultrathin, nanostructured silicon solar cells capable of simultaneously exploiting spectral upconversion and downshifting in conjunction with multispectral luminescent waveguides and a nanostructured plasmonic reflector to compensate for their weak optical absorption and enhance their performance. The 8 μm-thick silicon solar cells incorporating a hexagonally periodic nanostructured surface relief are surface-embedded in layered multispectral luminescent media containing organic dyes and NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ nanocrystals as downshifting and upconverting luminophores, respectively, via printing-enabled deterministic materials assembly. The ultrathin nanostructured silicon microcells in the composite luminescent waveguide exhibit strongly augmented photocurrent (∼40.1 mA/cm2) and energy conversion efficiency (∼12.8%) than devices with only a single type of luminescent species, owing to the synergistic contributions from optical downshifting, plasmonically enhanced upconversion, and waveguided photon flux for optical concentration, where the short-circuit current density increased by ∼13.6 mA/cm2 compared with microcells in a nonluminescent medium on a plain silver reflector under a confined illumination.
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- Sung-Min Lee
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Kookmin University , Seoul 02707, Republic of Korea
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Zhan P, Dutta PK, Wang P, Song G, Dai M, Zhao SX, Wang ZG, Yin P, Zhang W, Ding B, Ke Y. Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional Gold Nanorod Plasmonic Nanostructures Organized on DNA Origami Tripod. ACS Nano 2017; 11:1172-1179. [PMID: 28056172 PMCID: PMC5540230 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Distinct electromagnetic properties can emerge from the three-dimensional (3D) configuration of a plasmonic nanostructure. Furthermore, the reconfiguration of a dynamic plasmonic nanostructure, driven by physical or chemical stimuli, may generate a tailored plasmonic response. In this work, we constructed a 3D reconfigurable plasmonic nanostructure with controllable, reversible conformational transformation using bottom-up DNA self-assembly. Three gold nanorods (AuNRs) were positioned onto a reconfigurable DNA origami tripod. The internanorod angle and distance were precisely tuned through operating the origami tripod by toehold-mediated strand displacement. The transduction of conformational change manifested into a controlled shift of the plasmonic resonance peak, which was studied by dark-field microscopy, and agrees well with electrodynamic calculations. This new 3D plasmonic nanostructure not only provides a method to study the plasmonic resonance of AuNRs at prescribed 3D conformations but also demonstrates that DNA origami can serve as a general self-assembly platform for constructing various 3D reconfigurable plasmonic nanostructures with customized optical properties.
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- Pengfei Zhan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystems and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystems and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
- Corresponding Authors, , ,
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystems and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Corresponding Authors, , ,
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Corresponding Authors, , ,
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