Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22227
Title: Thermoplasmonic Study of a Triple Band Optical Nanoantenna Strongly Coupled to Mid IR Molecular Mode
Authors: Hasan, D 
Ho, C.P 
Pitchappa, P 
Yang, B
Yang, C
Lee, C 
Keywords: chemistry
degradation
heating
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Citation: Hasan, D, Ho, C.P, Pitchappa, P, Yang, B, Yang, C, Lee, C (2016). Thermoplasmonic Study of a Triple Band Optical Nanoantenna Strongly Coupled to Mid IR Molecular Mode. Scientific Reports 6 : 22227. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22227
Abstract: We report the first thermal study of a triple band plasmonic nanoantenna strongly coupled to a molecular mode at mid IR wavelength (MW IR). The hybrid plasmonic structure supports three spatially and spectrally variant resonances of which two are magnetic and one is dipolar in nature. A hybridized mode is excited by coupling the structure's plasmonic mode with the vibrational mode of PMMA at 5.79 ?m. Qualitative agreement between the spectral changes in simulation and experiment clearly indicates that resistive heating is the dominant mechanisms behind the intensity changes of the dipolar and magnetic peaks. The study also unveils the thermal insensitivity of the coupled mode intensity as the temperature is increased. We propose a mechanism to reduce the relative intensity change of the coupled mode at elevated temperature by mode detuning and surface current engineering and demonstrate less than 9% intensity variation. Later, we perform a temperature cycling test and investigate into the degradation of the Au-PMMA composite device. The failure condition is identified to be primarily associated with the surface chemistry of the material interface rather than the deformation of the nanopatterns. The study reveals the robustness of the strongly coupled hybridized mode even under multiple cycling.
Source Title: Scientific Reports
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/174989
ISSN: 20452322
DOI: 10.1038/srep22227
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