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Surface Plasmon Modes of Sandwich-Like Metal–Dielectric Nanostructures

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We established that metal–dielectric nanostructures (consisting of three stacked monolayers of silver nanoparticles incorporated into polymer cross-linked film) can demonstrate three different surface plasmon collective modes. The modes were detected when the extinction spectra of the nanostructures were studied as a function of the incident angle and polarization of the incident light. Two previously known surface plasmon collective modes, namely T and P, associated with particle dipoles parallel and perpendicular to plane of the layer were identified for the polymer films containing one, two, and three monolayers of the particles. The extinction bands of T and P modes exhibited different intensity and frequency dependences on the angle of incidence. More pronounced angular dependences for P mode band indicated the stronger coupling of dipoles for P mode than for T one. A new N mode was observed for the structures consisting of three nanoparticle layers. This mode originated from surface plasmon coupling between adjacent layers. The additional mode significantly increases amount of information that can be obtained from optical response of the nanostructures.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the State Agency on Science, Innovations and Informatization of Ukraine (grant no. M/325-2013), the National Science Foundation (grant nos. CBET-0756457 and DMR-0602528), and the US Department of Energy (grant no. DE-FG02-06ER46342).

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  1. Physics Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13 Volodymyrs’ka Str., Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine

    Oleg Yeshchenko & Illya Bondarchuk

  2. V.E. Lashkarev Institute of Semiconductors Physics NAS of Ukraine, 41 Nauki Ave., Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine

    Serhiy Malynych

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Serhiy Malynych, Yuriy Galabura & Igor Luzinov

  4. Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Serhiy Malynych & George Chumanov

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Yeshchenko, O., Bondarchuk, I., Malynych, S. et al. Surface Plasmon Modes of Sandwich-Like Metal–Dielectric Nanostructures. Plasmonics 10, 655–665 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-014-9851-8

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