Vibrational near-field mapping of planar and buried three-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures
Nanoantennas confine electromagnetic fields at visible and infrared wavelengths to volumes of only a few cubic nanometres. Assessing their near-field distribution offers fundamental insight into light-matter coupling and is of special interest for applications such as radiation engineering, attomola...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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29 July 2013
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Nature Communications
Year: 2013, Volume: 4 |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms3237 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3237 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3237 
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| Author Notes: | Daniel Dregely, Frank Neubrech, Huigao Duan, Ralf Vogelgesang and Harald Giessen |
| Summary: | Nanoantennas confine electromagnetic fields at visible and infrared wavelengths to volumes of only a few cubic nanometres. Assessing their near-field distribution offers fundamental insight into light-matter coupling and is of special interest for applications such as radiation engineering, attomolar sensing and nonlinear optics. Most experimental approaches to measure near-fields employ either diffraction-limited far-field methods or intricate near-field scanning techniques. Here, using diffraction-unlimited far-field spectroscopy in the infrared, we directly map the intensity of the electric field close to plasmonic nanoantennas. We place a patch of probe molecules with 10 nm accuracy at different locations in the near-field of a resonant antenna and extract the molecular vibrational excitation. We map the field intensity along a dipole antenna and gap-type antennas. Moreover, this method is able to assess the near-field intensity of complex buried plasmonic structures. We demonstrate this by measuring for the first time the near-field intensity of a three-dimensional plasmonic electromagnetically induced transparency structure. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 04.01.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms3237 |