UV plasmonic enhancement through three dimensional nano-cavity antenna array in aluminum

Jieying Mao; Peter Stevenson; Danielle Montanaric; Yunshan Wang; Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry; Joel M. Harris; Steve Blair

doi:10.1117/12.2274587

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6 September 2017 UV plasmonic enhancement through three dimensional nano-cavity antenna array in aluminum

Jieying Mao, Peter Stevenson, Danielle Montanaric, Yunshan Wang, Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry, Joel M. Harris, Steve Blair

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Proceedings Volume 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV; 1034616 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274587
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

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Metallic nanostructure can enhance fluorescence through excited surface plasmons which increase the local field as well as improve its quantum efficiency. When coupling to cavity resonance with proper gap dimension, gap hot spots can be generated to interact with fluorescence at their excitation/emission region in UV. A 3D nano-cavity antenna array in Aluminum has been conducted to generate local hot spot resonant at fluorescence emission resonance. Giant field enhancement has been achieved through coupling fundamental resonance modes of nanocavity into surface plasmons polaritons (SPPs). In this work, two distinct plasmonic structure of 3D resonant cavity nanoantenna has been studied and its plasmonic response has been scaled down to the UV regime through finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) method. Two different strategies for antenna fabrication will be conducted to obtain D-coupled Dots-on-Pillar Antenna array (D2PA) through Focus Ion Beam (FIB) and Cap- Hole Pair Antenna array (CHPA) through nanosphere template lithography (NTL). With proper optimization of the structures, D2PA and CHPA square array with 280nm pitch have achieved distinct enhancement at fluorophore emission wavelength 350nm and excitation wavelength 280nm simultaneously. Maximum field enhancement can reach 20 and 65 fold in the gap of D2PA and CHPA when light incident from substrate, which is expected to greatly enhance fluorescent quantum efficiency that will be confirmed in fluorescence lifetime measurement.

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Jieying Mao, Peter Stevenson, Danielle Montanaric, Yunshan Wang, Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry, Joel M. Harris, and Steve Blair "UV plasmonic enhancement through three dimensional nano-cavity antenna array in aluminum", Proc. SPIE 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV, 1034616 (6 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274587

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