Aluminum nanostructures for ultraviolet plasmonics

Jérôme Martin; Dmitry Khlopin; Feifei Zhang; Silvère Schuermans; Julien Proust; Thomas Maurer; Davy Gérard; Jérôme Plain

doi:10.1117/12.2274970

29 August 2017 Aluminum nanostructures for ultraviolet plasmonics

Jérôme Martin, Dmitry Khlopin, Feifei Zhang, Silvère Schuermans, Julien Proust, Thomas Maurer, Davy Gérard, Jérôme Plain

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Proceedings Volume 10351, UV and Higher Energy Photonics: From Materials to Applications 2017; 103510D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274970
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

An electromagnetic field is able to produce a collective oscillation of free electrons at a metal surface. This allows light to be concentrated in volumes smaller than its wavelength. The resulting waves, called surface plasmons can be applied in various technological applications such as ultra-sensitive sensing, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, or metal-enhanced fluorescence, to name a few. For several decades plasmonics has been almost exclusively studied in the visible region by using nanoparticles made of gold or silver as these noble metals support plasmonic resonances in the visible and near-infrared range. Nevertheless, emerging applications will require the extension of nano-plasmonics toward higher energies, in the ultraviolet range. Aluminum is one of the most appealing metal for pushing plasmonics up to ultraviolet energies. The subsequent applications in the field of nano-optics are various. This metal is therefore a highly promising material for commercial applications in the field of ultraviolet nano-optics. As a consequence, aluminum (or ultraviolet, UV) plasmonics has emerged quite recently. Aluminium plasmonics has been demonstrated efficient for numerous potential applications including non-linear optics, enhanced fluorescence, UV-Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, optoelectronics, plasmonic assisted solid-state lasing, photocatalysis, structural colors and data storage. In this article, different preparation methods developed in the laboratory to obtain aluminum nanostructures with different geometries are presented. Their optical and morphological characterizations of the nanostructures are given and some proof of principle applications such as fluorescence enhancement are discussed.

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Jérôme Martin, Dmitry Khlopin, Feifei Zhang, Silvère Schuermans, Julien Proust, Thomas Maurer, Davy Gérard, and Jérôme Plain "Aluminum nanostructures for ultraviolet plasmonics", Proc. SPIE 10351, UV and Higher Energy Photonics: From Materials to Applications 2017, 103510D (29 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274970

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