Magnetic circular dichroism of thiolate-protected plasmonic gold nanoparticles: separating the effects of interband transitions and surface magnetoplasmon resonance

Taisuke Shiratsu; Hiroshi Yao

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.10.046004

12 October 2016 Magnetic circular dichroism of thiolate-protected plasmonic gold nanoparticles: separating the effects of interband transitions and surface magnetoplasmon resonance

Taisuke Shiratsu, Hiroshi Yao

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 046004 (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.046004

Abstract

Magneto-optical activity is demonstrated in thiolate-protected Au nanoparticles with magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. The samples examined are decanethiolate-protected Au nanoparticles with the mean diameters ranging from 2.0 to 4.7 nm. The nanoparticles larger than 2.4 nm in diameter exhibit a derivative-like MCD signal, indicating the presence of two circular modes of surface magnetoplasmon, but the spectral shape is so asymmetric that its identification is rather difficult. This is due to the contribution of interband transitions occurring at around the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) frequency. We then develop an efficient method to phenomenologically separate the effects of magnetoplasmonic intraband (= Drude) and interband transitions in the measured MCD spectra using an approximation that the optical response of the Au nanoparticle with a critical size (∼2.0 nm) for the disappearance of LSPR, which is also experimentally obtainable, is substantially dominated by the interband transitions. The consistency of the method is ensured for tiopronin-protected Au nanoparticles, and a very small bisignate magnetoplasmonic response hidden in the total MCD spectrum can be extracted. The practical advantage of the proposed method is that we can intuitively and effectively evaluate the characteristic features of the surface magnetoplasmon of thiolate-protected Au nanoparticles without performing complicated Mie or quasielectrostatic calculations.

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Taisuke Shiratsu and Hiroshi Yao "Magnetic circular dichroism of thiolate-protected plasmonic gold nanoparticles: separating the effects of interband transitions and surface magnetoplasmon resonance," Journal of Nanophotonics 10(4), 046004 (12 October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.046004

Published: 12 October 2016

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