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Published on: July 21, 2023
High spatial resolution mapping of surface plasmon resonance modes in single and aggregated gold nanoparticles
Carlos Diaz-Egea1, Wilfried Sigle, Peter A van Aken
1Instituto de Microscopía Electrónica y Materiales, Departamento de Ciencia de los Materiales e I, M, y Q, I, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Campus Río San Pedro, s/n, 11510, Puerto Real Cádiz, Spain. carlos.diazegea@uca.es.
Abstract:
We present the mapping of the full plasmonic mode spectrum for single and aggregated gold nanoparticles linked through DNA strands to a silicon nitride substrate. A comprehensive analysis of the electron energy loss spectroscopy images maps was performed on nanoparticles standing alone, dimers, and clusters of nanoparticles. The experimental results were confirmed by numerical calculations using the Mie theory and Gans-Mie theory for solving Maxwell's equations. Both bright and dark surface plasmon modes have been unveiled. PACS: 78.67.Bf; 61.46.Df; 87.64.Ee.
