Toroidal Plasmonic Eigenmodes in Oligomer Nanocavities for the Visible
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- 作者：Burcu 脰g眉t ; Nahid Talebi ; Ralf Vogelgesang ; Wilfried Sigle ; Peter A. van Aken
- 刊名：Nano Letters
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：October 10, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：12
- 期：10
- 页码：5239-5244
- 全文大小：440K
- 年卷期：v.12,no.10(October 10, 2012)
- ISSN：1530-6992
文摘
Plasmonics has become one of the most vibrant areas in research with technological innovations impacting fields from telecommunications to medicine. Many fascinating applications of plasmonic nanostructures employ electric dipole and higher-order multipole resonances. Also magnetic multipole resonances are recognized for their unique properties. Besides these multipolar modes that easily radiate into free space, other types of electromagnetic resonances exist, so-called toroidal eigenmodes, which have been largely overlooked historically. They are strongly bound to material structures and their peculiar spatial structure renders them practically invisible to conventional optical microscopy techniques. In this Letter, we demonstrate toroidal modes in a metal ring formed by an oligomer of holes. Combined energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy and three-dimensional finite difference time domain analysis reveal their distinct features. For the study of these modes that cannot be excited by optical far-field spectroscopy, energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy emerges as the method of choice. Toroidal moments bear great potential for novel applications, for example, in the engineering of Purcell factors of quantum-optical emitters inside toroidal cavities.