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Title
Collective plasmonic properties in few-layer gold nanorod supercrystals
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Abstract
Gold nanorod supercrystals have been widely employed for the detection of relevant bioanalytes with detection limits ranging from nano- to picomolar levels, confirming the promising nature of these structures for biosensing. Even though a relationship between the height of the supercrystal (i.e., the number of stacked nanorod layers) and the enhancement factor has been proposed, no systematic study has been reported. In order to tackle this problem, we prepared gold nanorod supercrystals with varying numbers of stacked layers and analyzed them extensively by atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy and surface enhanced Raman scattering. The experimental results were compared to numerical simulations performed on real-size supercrystals composed of thousands of nanorod building blocks. Analysis of the hot spot distribution in the simulated supercrystals showed the presence of standing waves that were distributed at different depths, depending on the number of layers in each supercrystal. On the basis of these theoretical results, we interpreted the experimental data in terms of analyte penetration into the topmost layer only, which indicates that diffusion to the interior of the supercrystals would be crucial if the complete field enhancement produced by the stacked nanorods is to be exploited. We propose that our conclusions will be of high relevance in the design of next generation plasmonic devices.
Language
English
Source (journal)
ACS Photonics. - -
Publication
2015
ISSN
2330-4022
DOI
10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.5B00369
Volume/pages
2 :10 (2015) , p. 1482-1488
ISI
000363435600013
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Project info
Colouring Atoms in 3 Dimensions (COLOURATOM).
PLASMAQUO: Development of plasmonic quorum sensors for understanding bacterial-eukaryotic cell relations
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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