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OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND PLASMON RESONANCE OF COUPLED GOLD NANOSHELL ARRAYS

XIN ZHOU

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

School of Sciences, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412008, China

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HONGJIAN LI

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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SHAOLI FU

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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SUXIA XIE

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

College of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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HAIQING XU

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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JINJUN WU

College of Physics Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984911025523Cited by:8 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The optical properties and plasmon resonances coupling of ordered gold nanoshell arrays are investigated theoretically by means of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) theory. We showed that the thickness, size and inter-shell distance of the nanoshells can tune the optical transmission of the system and the highly geometry-dependent plasmon response can be seen as an interaction between the essentially fixed-frequency plasmon response of a nanosphere and that of a nanocavity for the nanoshells. We also revealed the two different resonance modes by analyzing the spatial distributions of electric field component E_z. We proposed that the peaks of the lower energy mainly originate from the sphere plasmons coupling and the peaks of the higher energy are mainly attributed to the coupling between the sphere plasmons and the cavity plasmons.

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PACS: 73.20.Mf, 78.68.+m, 78.30.-j

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