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“Seeing” the Resonant SPP Modes Confined in Metal Nanocavity via Cathodoluminescne Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2014

Liu Chuanpu ,
Zhu Xinli ,
Zhang Jiasen ,
Xu Jun  and
Yu Dapeng
Liu Chuanpu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, and Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Physics, 209 Chengfu Road, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P.R. China
Zhu Xinli
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, and Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Physics, 209 Chengfu Road, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P.R. China
Zhang Jiasen*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, and Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Physics, 209 Chengfu Road, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P.R. China
Yu Dapeng*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, and Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Physics, 209 Chengfu Road, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, P.R. China
*
*E-mail: jszhang@pku.edu.cnyudp@pku.edu.cn
*E-mail: jszhang@pku.edu.cnyudp@pku.edu.cn
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Abstract:

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which are coupled excitations of electrons bound to a metal-dielectric interface, show great potential for application in future nanoscale photonic systems due to the strong field confinement at the nanoscale, intensive local field enhancement, and interplay between strongly localized and propagating SPPs. The fabrication of sufficiently smooth metal surface with nanoscale feature size is crucial for SPPs to have practical applications. A template stripping (ST) method combined with PMMA as a template was successfully developed to create extraordinarily smooth metal nanostructures with a desirable feature size and morphology for plasmonics and metamaterials. The advantages of this method, including the high resolution, precipitous top-to bottom profile with a high aspect ratio, and three-dimensional characteristics, make it very suitable for the fabrication of plasmonic structures. By using this ST method, boxing ring-shaped nanocavities have been fabricated and the confined modes of surface plasmon polaritons in these nanocavities have been investigated and imaged by using cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy, which has been turned out to be a powerful means to characterize the resonant SPPs modes confined in metal nanocavities [1∼5] . The mode of the out-of-plane field components of surface plasmon polaritons dominates the experimental mode patterns, indicating that the electron beam locally excites the out-of-plane field component of surface plasmon polaritons. Quality factors can be directly acquired from the spectra induced by the ultrasmooth surface of the cavity and the high reflectivity of the silver (Ag) reflectors. Because of its three-dimensional confined characteristics and the omnidirectional reflectors, the nanocavity exhibits a small modal volume, small total volume, rich resonant modes, and flexibility in mode control. Numerous applications, such as plasmonic filter, nanolaser, and efficient light-emitting devices, can be expected to arise from these developments.

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nanostructureelectron-phonon interactionsAg
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1659: Symposium SS/XX – Micro- and Nanoscale Systems – Novel Materials, Structures and Devices , 2014 , pp. 83 - 94
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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