Abstract
An electromagnetic wave impinging on a gold nanosponge coherently excites many electromagnetic hot-spots inside the nanosponge, yielding a polarization-dependent scattering spectrum. In contrast, a hole, recombining with an electron, can locally excite plasmonic hot-spots only within a horizon given by the lifetime of localized plasmons and the speed carrying the information that a plasmon has been created. This horizon is about 57 nm, decreasing with increasing size of the nanosponge. Consequently, photoluminescence from large gold nanosponges appears unpolarized.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1269-1273 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Nano Letters |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Feb 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- dark-field scattering
- event horizon
- fluorescence
- nanosponges
- Plasmonics
- single particle spectroscopy