I believe that my research work on the plasmonic spectroscopy of metallic nanostructures has provided an in-depth fundamental understanding of the localized surface plasmon resonance and will have a number of implications for the applications of metallic nanostructures in optics, optoelectronics, and biotechnology. / I will first describe my studies on the plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures. Specific approaches of modifying the sizes and shapes of Au nanorods have been developed for tailoring their plasmonic properties, including surface plasmon wavelength, absorption, scattering, and extinction cross sections. Single-particle dark-field imaging and spectroscopy have proved that the scattering intensity of overgrown nanorods is larger than that of shortened nanorods from the same starting nanorods. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) calculations further show that the scattering-to-extinction ratio increases linearly as a function of the diameter of Au nanorods with a fixed aspect ratio. To obtain a deep understanding on the shape dependence of the localized surface plasmon resonance, I have emplyed FDTD on both Au nanorods and Au nanobipyramids. The results show that, when excited at their LSP wavelengths, Au nanobipyramids exhibit a maximal electric field intensity enhancement that is 3--6 times that of Au nanorods. Au nanorods have been further assembled into chains (end-to-end) and stacks (side-by-side). FDTD calculations have been performed on both Au nanorod chains and stacks with varying gap distances to obtain the dependence of the plasmon shift on the gap distance, which is then used as a plasmonic ruler to estimate the gap distance between assembled nanorods. Moreover, dye--Au nanorod hybrid nanostructures have also been successfully fabricated for the study of the coupling between the transition dipole resonance and the plasmonic resonance. The coupling-induced plasmon shift is found to be strongly dependent on molecular properties, the dye concentration in solutions, and the spacer thickness between dye molecules and the surface of Au nanorods. The coupling can be switched off by means of laser-induced photodecomposition of dye molecules. / Next, I will present my studies on the applications of metallic nanostructures. A SERS substrate has been constructed by assembling silver nanoparticles along silica nanofibers. The enhancement factors are found to be 2 x 10 5 for 4-mercaptobenzoic acid and 4-mercaptophenol, and 7 x 10 7 for rhodamine B isothiocyanate. A novel plasmonic optical fiber device has further been fabricated to detect small changes in the local dielectric environment. For individual Au nanorods, the index sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM) are found to be linearly dependent on the longitudinal plasmon resonance wavelength and reach 200 nm/RIU and 3.8, respectively. For nanorod ensembles, the index sensitivity and FOM of the longitudinal plasmon resonance are found to be 138 nm/RIU and 1.2, respectively. / The study of the plasmonic spectroscopy of metallic nanostructures is of great interest in nanoscale optics and photonics. Metallic nanostructures exhibit rich optical and electrical properties due to their localized surface plasmons (LSPs, collective charge density oscillations that are confined to metallic nanostructures). They can be widely used in a variety of application areas, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), plasmonic sensing, and metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF). In this thesis, a systematic study on the plasmonic spectroscopy of metallic nanostructures has been presented, both theoretically and experimentally. / Ni, Wei hai = 金屬納米結構的等離子體光譜 / 倪衛海. / Adviser: Jianfang Wang. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B, page: 3580. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-154). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307. / Ni, Wei hai = Jin shu na mi jie gou de deng li zi ti guang pu / Ni Weihai.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_344260 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Contributors | Ni, Weihai., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, theses |
| Format | electronic resource, microform, microfiche, 1 online resource (xiv, 154 leaves : ill.) |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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