Pub Date : 2022-08-08eCollection Date: 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0193
Mario Pelaez-Fernandez, Bruno Majérus, Daniel Funes-Hernando, Romain Dufour, Jean-Luc Duvail, Luc Henrard, Raul Arenal
High aspect-ratio gold nanostructures sustain Fabry-Perot-like surface plasmon responses from infrared to visible light energies. We show that some resonances can be tuned by means of laser irradiation, where low energy modes stay unperturbed. After laser irradiation, gold nanowires' tips are transformed into nanoparticles of various sizes joint to gold nanowires, producing high aspect-ratio half-dumbbells and dumbbells structures. The plasmonic behaviour of both the nanowires and the newly created nanostructures has been characterised by in-depth monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) developed in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and state-of-the-art discrete dipole approximation (DDA) calculations. All these analyses serve as experimental proof of the selective tuning (or robustness) of the plasmonic modes of the nanostructures in a specific spectral range, which is of critical interest regarding applications for sensing devices, nano-sources or nanophotonic waveguide, as well as optical remote control.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-21eCollection Date: 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0036
Eleni Perivolari, Vassili A Fedotov, Janusz Parka, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Vasilis Apostolopoulos
Babinet complementary patterns of a spectrally tunable metamaterial incorporating a nematic liquid crystal is normally assumed to exhibit the same tuning range. Here we show that for a hybrid, liquid crystal-loaded metamaterial, the sensitivity of its terahertz resonances to the variations of the refractive index differs substantially for the two complementary patterns. This is due to a mismatch between the alignment of the liquid crystal and the direction of the local electric field induced in the metamaterial patterns. Furthermore, and more intriguingly, our experimental data indicate that it is possible to shift the resonance of the positive metamaterial pattern beyond the limit imposed by the alignment mismatch. Our analysis suggests that the observed anomalous frequency shift results from the orientational optical nonlinearity of a nematic liquid crystal.
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