Plasmonic Properties of Single Multispiked Gold Nanostars: Correlating Modeling with Experiments

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• 作者：Lei Shao ; Andrei S. Susha ; Lap Shan Cheung ; Tapan K. Sau ; Andrey L. Rogach ; Jianfang Wang
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：June 19, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：28
• 期：24
• 页码：8979-8984
• 全文大小：359K
• 年卷期：v.28,no.24(June 19, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

Gold nanostars, possessing multiple sharp spikes, have emerged as promising plasmonic particles in the field of ultrasensitive sensing. We have developed a water-based method for high-yield synthesis of size-tunable anisotropic gold nanoparticles with a varying number of spiky surface protrusions, and performed systematic experimental and theoretical analyses of the optical properties of the single gold nanostars by characterizing them simultaneously with scanning electron microscopy and dark-field scattering spectroscopy. The morphologies and corresponding scattering spectra of the individual gold nanostars have been compared with electromagnetic simulations of the plasmonic resonances utilizing the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The study provides a correlation between the experimental and calculated scattering spectra and charge distributions of the different plasmon modes in the individual gold nanostars with varying numbers and relative orientations of surface protrusions. Our results provide guidelines for choosing gold nanostars with a proper number of spikes and appropriate dimensions of the core and arms for particular plasmonic applications as well as for further developing preparation methods of multispiked metal nanoparticles.