Interfacial reflection enhanced optical extinction and thermal dynamics in polymer nanocomposite films

Jeremy R. Dunklin; Gregory T. Forcherio; Keith R. Berry Jr.; D. Keith Roper

doi:10.1117/12.2238040

16 September 2016 Interfacial reflection enhanced optical extinction and thermal dynamics in polymer nanocomposite films

Jeremy R. Dunklin, Gregory T. Forcherio, Keith R. Berry Jr., D. Keith Roper

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Proceedings Volume 9919, Nanophotonic Materials XIII; 99190X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238040
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Polymer films containing plasmonic nanostructures are of increasing interest for development of responsive energy, sensing, and therapeutic systems. A series of novel gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films were fabricated to elucidate enhanced optical extinction from diffractive and scattering induced internal reflection. AuNPs with dramatically different scattering-to-absorption ratios were compared at variable interparticle separations to differentiate light trapping from optical diffraction and Mie scattering. Description of interfacial optical and thermal effects due to these interrelated contributions has progressed beyond Mie theory, Beer’s law, effective media, and conventional heat transfer descriptions. Thermal dissipation rates in AuNP-PDMS with this interfacial optical reflection was enhanced relative to films containing heterogeneous AuNPs and a developed thermal dissipation description. This heuristic, which accounts for contributions of both internal and external thermal dissipations, has been shown to accurately predict thermal dissipation rates from AuNP-containing insulating and conductive substrates in both two and three-dimensional systems. Enhanced thermal response rates could enable design and adaptive control of thermoplasmonic materials for a variety of implementations.

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Jeremy R. Dunklin, Gregory T. Forcherio, Keith R. Berry Jr., and D. Keith Roper "Interfacial reflection enhanced optical extinction and thermal dynamics in polymer nanocomposite films", Proc. SPIE 9919, Nanophotonic Materials XIII, 99190X (16 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238040

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