Direct imaging of the near field and dynamics of surface plasmon resonance on gold nanostructures using photoemission electron microscopy

Quan Sun; Kosei Ueno; Han Yu; Atsushi Kubo; Yasutaka Matsuo; Hiroaki Misawa

doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.74

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Direct imaging of the near field and dynamics of surface plasmon resonance on gold nanostructures using photoemission electron microscopy

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- Direct imaging of the near field and dynamics of surface plasmon resonance on gold nanostructures using photoemission electron microscopy
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 2, Issue 3-4, (2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
  2.Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
  3.PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan
  4.Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan
- Author bio：
  
  Professor H Misawa, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan E-mail: misawa@es.hokudai.ac.jp
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2013.74
  CLC：
- Published：2013-12，
  
  Published Online：20 December 2013，
  
  Received：11 March 2013，
  
  Revised：12 June 2013，
  
  Accepted：16 August 2013
- Accepted：
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Sun, Q. et al. Direct imaging of the near field and dynamics of surface plasmon resonance on gold nanostructures using photoemission electron microscopy. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e118 (2013).
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Sun, Q. et al. Direct imaging of the near field and dynamics of surface plasmon resonance on gold nanostructures using photoemission electron microscopy. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e118 (2013). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2013.74.

摘要

Abstract

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) can be supported by metallic nanoparticles and engineered nanostructures. An understanding of the spatially resolved near-field properties and dynamics of LSPR is important

but remains experimentally challenging. We report experimental studies toward this aim using photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) with high spatial resolution of sub-10 nm. Various engineered gold nanostructure arrays (such as rods

nanodisk-like particles and dimers) are investigated

via

PEEM using near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond laser pulses as the excitation source. When the LSPR wavelengths overlap the spectrum of the femtosecond pulses

the LSPR is efficiently excited and promotes multiphoton photoemission

which is correlated with the local intensity of the metallic nanoparticles in the near field. Thus

the local field distribution of the LSPR on different Au nanostructures can be directly explored and discussed using the PEEM images. In addition

the dynamics of the LSPR is studied by combining interferometric time-resolved pump-probe technique and PEEM. Detailed information on the oscillation and dephasing of the LSPR field can be obtained. The results identify PEEM as a powerful

tool for accessing the near-field mapping and dynamic properties of plasmonic nanostructures.

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Keywords

femtosecond laserlocal field enhancementnear-field imagingphotoemission electron microscopysurface plasmon resonance

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