High temperature nanoplasmonics

Alessandro Alabastri; Andrea Toma; Mario Malerba; Francesco De Angelis; Remo Proietti Zaccaria

doi:10.1117/12.2238546

16 September 2016 High temperature nanoplasmonics

Alessandro Alabastri, Andrea Toma, Mario Malerba, Francesco De Angelis, Remo Proietti Zaccaria

Proceedings Volume 9919, Nanophotonic Materials XIII; 99190O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238546
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Metallic nanostructures can be utilized as heat nano-sources which can find application in different areas such as photocatalysis, nanochemistry or sensor devices. Here we show how the optical response of plasmonic structures is affected by the increase of temperature. In particular we apply a temperature dependent dielectric function model to different nanoparticles finding that the optical responses are strongly dependent on shape and aspect-ratio. The idea is that when metallic structures interact with an electromagnetic field they heat up due to Joule effect. The corresponding temperature increase modifies the optical response of the particle and thus the heating process. The key finding is that, depending on the structures geometry, absorption efficiency can either increase or decrease with temperature. Since absorption relates to thermal energy dissipation and thus to temperature increase, the mechanism leads to positive or negative loops. Consequently, not only an error would be made by neglecting temperature but it would be not even possible to know, a priori, if the error is towards higher or lower values.

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Alessandro Alabastri, Andrea Toma, Mario Malerba, Francesco De Angelis, and Remo Proietti Zaccaria "High temperature nanoplasmonics", Proc. SPIE 9919, Nanophotonic Materials XIII, 99190O (16 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238546

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