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Plasmonic Properties of Gold Nanostructures on Gold Film

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This paper reports on a systematic study of the plasmonic properties of periodic arrays of gold cylindrical nanoparticles in contact with a gold thin film. Depending on the gold film thickness, it observes several plasmon bands. Using a simple analytical model, it is able to assign all these modes and determine that they are due to the coupling of the grating diffraction orders with the propagating surface plasmons travelling along the film. With finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations, it demonstrates that large field enhancement occurs at the surface of the nanocylinders due to the resonant excitation of these modes. By tilting the sample, it also observes the evolution of the spectral position of these modes and their tuning through nearly the whole visible range is possible. Such plasmonic substrates combining both advantages of the propagative and localised surface plasmons could have large applications in enhanced spectroscopies.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partly performed at the “Centrale de Proximité en Nanotechnologies de Paris Nord” (CPN2, 99 Avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément 93430 Villetaneuse, France) of the Université Paris 13.

Funding

This work is supported by the grant PIRANEX project (ANR-12-NANO-0016), the Louise project (ANR-15-CE04-0001), and the Nanobiosensor project (ANR-15-CE29-0026) from the French National Research Agency (ANR).

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  1. Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire CSPBAT, CNRS, (UMR 7244), Université Paris 13, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017, Bobigny, France

    Médéric Lequeux, David Mele & Raymond Gillibert

  2. Laboratoire LRS, CNRS-UPMC UMR 7197, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Médéric Lequeux & Souhir Boujday

  3. Biosensor Technologies, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Konrad-Lorenz-Strasse 24,, 3430, Tulln, Austria

    Priyamvada Venugopalan, Wolfgang Knoll & Jakub Dostalek

  4. CEST Kompetenzzentrum für elektrochemische Oberflächentechnologie GmbH, TFZ, Wiener Neustadt, Viktor-Kaplan-Strasse 2,, 2700, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

    Priyamvada Venugopalan

  5. IMMM-UMR 6283 CNRS, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085, Le Mans Cedex 9, France

    Marc Lamy de la Chapelle

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Lequeux, M., Mele, D., Venugopalan, P. et al. Plasmonic Properties of Gold Nanostructures on Gold Film. Plasmonics 15, 1653–1660 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01185-9

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