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Metal-Dielectric-Metal Resonators with Deep Subwavelength Dielectric Layers Increase the Near-Field SEIRA Enhancement

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Jungseok Chae, Basudev Lahiri, John M. Kohoutek, Glenn Holland, Henri Lezec, Andrea Centrone

Abstract

Plasmonic nanostructures presenting either structural asymmetry or metal-dielectric-metal (M-D-M) architecture are commonly used structures to increase the quality factor and the near-field confinement in plasmonic materials. This characteristic can be leveraged for example to increase the sensitivity of IR spectroscopy, via the surface enhanced IR absorption (SEIRA) effect. In this work, we combine structural asymmetry with the M-D-M architecture to realize Ag-Ag2O-Ag asymmetric ring resonators (ASRRs) where two Ag layer sandwich a native silver oxide (Ag2O) layer. Their IR response is compared with the one of fully metallic (Ag) ASRRs of the same size and shape. The photothermal induced resonance technique (PTIR) is used to obtain near-filed SEIRA absorption maps and spectra with nanoscale resolution. Although the native Ag2O layer is only 1 nm to 2 nm thick, it increases the quality factor of the plasmon excitation by ≈ 20 % and the SEIRA enhancement by ≈ 44 % with respect to entirely Ag structures.
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
23
Issue
20

Citation

Chae, J. , Lahiri, B. , Kohoutek, J. , Holland, G. , Lezec, H. and Centrone, A. (2015), Metal-Dielectric-Metal Resonators with Deep Subwavelength Dielectric Layers Increase the Near-Field SEIRA Enhancement, Optics Express, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.025912, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918644 (Accessed November 7, 2024)

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Created September 23, 2015, Updated October 12, 2021