We establish the concept of a plasmonic polymer, whose collective optical properties depend on the repeat unit. Experimental and theoretical analyses of the super- and sub-radiant plasmon response of plasmonic polymers comprising repeat units of single nanoparticles or dimers of gold nanoparticles show that (1) the redshift of the lowest energy coupled mode becomes minimal as the chain approaches the infinite chain limit at a length of similar to 10 particles, (2) the presence and energy of the modes are sensitive to the geometries of the constituents, that is, repeat unit, but (3) spatial disorder and nanoparticle heterogeneity have only small effects on the super-radiant mode.
- Toward Plasmonic Polymers
- Liane S. Slaughter - Rice UniversityBritain A. Willingham - Rice UniversityWei-Shun Chang - Rice UniversityMaximilian H. Chester - Rice UniversityNathan Ogden - Rice UniversityStephan Link - Rice University
- Nano letters, Vol.12(8), pp.3967-3972
- Amer Chemical Soc
- 6
- English
- 50191-DNI6 / ACS Petroleum Research Fund; American Cancer Society; American Chemical Society 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant; 3M CHE-0955286 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF-IGERT in Nanophotonics C-1664 / Robert A. Welch Foundation; The Welch Foundation N00014-10-1-0989 / Office of Naval Research
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Journal article
- 9914419403101301