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Probing the ultimate limits of plasmonic enhancement.

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2012-08-31
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Ciracì, C
Hill, RT
Mock, JJ
Urzhumov, Y
Fernández-Domínguez, AI
Maier, SA
Pendry, JB
Chilkoti, A
Smith, DR
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Abstract
Metals support surface plasmons at optical wavelengths and have the ability to localize light to subwavelength regions. The field enhancements that occur in these regions set the ultimate limitations on a wide range of nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena. We found that the dominant limiting factor is not the resistive loss of the metal, but rather the intrinsic nonlocality of its dielectric response. A semiclassical model of the electronic response of a metal places strict bounds on the ultimate field enhancement. To demonstrate the accuracy of this model, we studied optical scattering from gold nanoparticles spaced a few angstroms from a gold film. The bounds derived from the models and experiments impose limitations on all nanophotonic systems.
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Journal article
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Gold
Hydrodynamics
Light
Metal Nanoparticles
Nanospheres
Scattering, Radiation
Surface Plasmon Resonance
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/7576
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10.1126/science.1224823
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Ciracì, C; Hill, RT; Mock, JJ; Urzhumov, Y; Fernández-Domínguez, AI; Maier, SA; ... Smith, DR (2012). Probing the ultimate limits of plasmonic enhancement. Science, 337(6098). pp. 1072-1074. 10.1126/science.1224823. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/7576.
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Chilkoti

Ashutosh Chilkoti

Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti is the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. My research in biomolecular engineering and biointerface science focuses on the development of new molecular tools and technologies that borrow from molecular biology, protein engineering, polymer chemistry and surface science that we then exploit for the development of applications that span the range from bioseparations, plasmonic bio
Smith

David R. Smith

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. David R. Smith is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. He is also Director of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics at Duke and holds the positions of Adjunct Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Professor of Physics at Imperial College, London. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in 1994 in Physics from the University of California, San D
Urzhumov

Yaroslav A. Urzhumov

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]-->Dr. Urzhumov is Adjunct Assistant Professor of ECE at Duke University, and also a Technologist at the Metamaterials Commercialization Center of Intellectual Ventures. Previously a research faculty at Duke, he works on applied and theoretical aspects of metama
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