Issue 3, 2019

Hybrid plasmonic Au–TiN vertically aligned nanocomposites: a nanoscale platform towards tunable optical sensing

Abstract

Tunable plasmonic structure at the nanometer scale presents enormous opportunities for various photonic devices. In this work, we present a hybrid plasmonic thin film platform: i.e., a vertically aligned Au nanopillar array grown inside a TiN matrix with controllable Au pillar density. Compared to single phase plasmonic materials, the presented tunable hybrid nanostructures attain optical flexibility including gradual tuning and anisotropic behavior of the complex dielectric function, resonant peak shifting and change of surface plasmon resonances (SPRs) in the UV-visible range, all confirmed by numerical simulations. The tailorable hybrid platform also demonstrates enhanced surface plasmon Raman response for Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and photoluminescence (PL) measurements, and presents great potentials as designable hybrid platforms for tunable optical-based chemical sensing applications.

Graphical abstract: Hybrid plasmonic Au–TiN vertically aligned nanocomposites: a nanoscale platform towards tunable optical sensing

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Okt. 2018
Accepted
27 Nov. 2018
First published
27 Nov. 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2019,1, 1045-1054

Hybrid plasmonic Au–TiN vertically aligned nanocomposites: a nanoscale platform towards tunable optical sensing

X. Wang, J. Jian, S. Diaz-Amaya, C. E. Kumah, P. Lu, J. Huang, D. G. Lim, V. G. Pol, J. P. Youngblood, A. Boltasseva, L. A. Stanciu, D. M. O'Carroll, X. Zhang and H. Wang, Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 1045 DOI: 10.1039/C8NA00306H

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