Journal article · Preprint article
Multipole plasmons and their disappearance in few-nanometre silver nanoparticles
Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark1
Theoretical Nanotechnology, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark4
Structured Electromagnetic Materials, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
Center for Nanostructured Graphene, Centers, Technical University of Denmark6
Utrecht University7
Electron energy-loss spectroscopy can be used for detailed spatial and spectral characterization of optical excitations in metal nanoparticles. In previous electron energy-loss experiments on silver nanoparticles with radii smaller than 20 nm, only the dipolar surface plasmon resonance was assumed to play a role.
Here, applying electron energy-loss spectroscopy to individual silver nanoparticles encapsulated in silicon nitride, we observe besides the usual dipole resonance an additional surface plasmon resonance corresponding to higher angular momenta for nanoparticle radii as small as 4 nm. We study the radius and electron beam impact position dependence of both resonances separately.
For particles smaller than 4 nm in radius the higher-order surface plasmon mode disappears, in agreement with generalized non-local optical response theory, while the dipole resonance blueshift exceeds our theoretical predictions. Unlike in optical spectra, multipole surface plasmons are important in electron energy-loss spectra even of ultrasmall metallic nanoparticles.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Nature Pub. Group |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 8788 |
ISSN: | 20411723 |
Types: | Journal article and Preprint article |
DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms9788 |
ORCIDs: | Christensen, Thomas , Wubs, Martijn , Stenger, Nicolas , Raza, Søren , Kadkhodazadeh, Shima and Mortensen, N. Asger |