Abstract
We demonstrate thermally controlled plasmon resonance modulation of single gold nanoparticles on vanadium dioxide thin films by performing dark-field spectroscopy measurements at different temperatures. The plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles exhibits a significant blueshift in the visible range when the vanadium dioxide film undergoes its insulator-to-metal phase transition around 67 °C. More importantly, the resonance shift shows a clear hysteresis, mirroring the behavior of the vanadium dioxide film. At a fixed wavelength, the scattering intensity of Au particles also shows a hysteretic behavior decorated with an overshoot before (after) the insulator-metal (metal- insulator) phase transition of the vanadium dioxide film, suggesting that the nanoparticle is probing local variations in the phase transition.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3988-3990 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 23 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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