Tunability of Subradiant Dipolar and Fano-Type Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Ring/Disk Cavities: Implications for Nanoscale Optical Sensing
Authors:
Hao, Feng × Nordlander, Peter Sonnefraud, Yannick Van Dorpe, Pol Maier, Stefan A #
Issue Date:
Mar-2009
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Series Title:
ACS Nano vol:3 issue:3 pages:643-652
Abstract:
Plasmonic nanocavities consisting of the concentric arrangement of a disk and a ring sustain both subradiant and superradiant dipolar plasmon modes with large associated field enhancements and high refractive index sensitivities. In structures with broken symmetry, additionally a highly tunable Fano interference feature appears, which can be explained with a simple analytical harmonic oscillator model. The spectral tunability of these resonances from the visible to the mid-infrared is investigated, highlighting a potential for applications in surface enhanced spectroscopies.
