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Pavaskar, Prathamesh.

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Electromagnetic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Electromagnetic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures./
Author:	Pavaskar, Prathamesh.
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-10B(E).
Subject:	Nanotechnology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3563966
ISBN:	9781303125096

Electromagnetic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures.
Pavaskar, Prathamesh.

Electromagnetic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures. - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2013.

In this thesis, plasmonic properties of metal nanostructures are investigated by electromagnetic simulations using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Chapter 1 covers the background knowledge required to read this thesis. It talks about the fundamentals of the FDTD method, the physics of plasmonics and a brief description of photocatalysis.

ISBN: 9781303125096Subjects--Topical Terms:

526235
Nanotechnology.

Electromagnetic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures.
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520 $a In this thesis, plasmonic properties of metal nanostructures are investigated by electromagnetic simulations using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Chapter 1 covers the background knowledge required to read this thesis. It talks about the fundamentals of the FDTD method, the physics of plasmonics and a brief description of photocatalysis.
520 $a In chapter 2, we perform optimization of plasmonic nanoparticle geometries. An iterative optimization algorithm is used to determine the configuration of the nanoparticles that gives the maximum electric field intensity at the center of the cluster. We observe that the optimum configurations of these clusters have mirror symmetry about the axis of planewave propagation, but are otherwise non-symmetric and non-intuitive. The maximum field intensity is found to increase monotonically with the number nanoparticles in the cluster, producing intensities that are 2500 times larger than the incident electromagnetic field.
520 $a In chapter 3, evaporated thin films are imaged with high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), to reveal the structure of the semicontinuous metal island film with sub-nm resolution. The electric field distributions and the absorption spectra of these semicontinuous island film geometries are calculated using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method and compared with the experimentally measured absorption spectra. In addition to that, we calculate the SERS enhancement factors and photocatalytic enhancement factors of these films. We also study the effect of annealing on these films, which results in a large reduction in electric field strength due to increased nanoparticle spacing.
520 $a In chapter 4, we study the effects of surrounding nanoparticles on a plasmonic hot spot. From our simulations, we show that the surrounding film contributes significantly to the electric field intensity at the hot spot by focusing energy to it. Widening of the gap size causes a decrease in the intensity at the hot spot. However, these island-like nanoparticle hot spots are shown to be robust to gap size than nanoparticle dimer geometries, studied previously. In fact, the main factor in determining the hot spot intensity is the focusing effect of the surrounding nano-islands.
520 $a In chapter 5, we demonstrate plasmon-enhanced photocatalytic water splitting, and reduction of CO2 with H2O to form hydrocarbon fuels. Under visible illumination, we observe enhancements of up to 66X in the photocatalytic splitting of water in TiO2 with the addition of Au nanoparticles. We also perform a systematic study of the mechanisms of Au nanoparticle/TiO 2-catalyzed photoreduction of CO2 and water vapor over a wide range of wavelengths. In this case, under visible light illumination, we observe a 24-fold enhancement in the photocatalytic activity due to the intense local electromagnetic fields created by the surface plasmons of the Au nanoparticles. Above the plasmon resonance, under ultraviolet radiation we observe a reduction in the photocatalytic activity. Electromagnetic simulations indicate that the improvement of photocatalytic activity in the visible range is caused by the local electric field enhancement near the TiO2 surface, rather than by the direct transfer of charge between the two materials.
520 $a In chapter 6, I will talk about a method for fabricating arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles with separations on the order of 1nm using an angle evaporation technique. High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is used to resolve the small separations achieved between nanoparticles fabricated on thin SiN membranes. These nearly touching metal nanoparticles produce extremely high electric field intensities when irradiated with laser light. We perform surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) a non-resonant dye molecule (p-ATP) deposited on the nanoparticle arrays using confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy. Our results show significant enhancement when the incident laser is polarized parallel to the axis of the nanoparticle pairs, whereas no enhancement is observed for the perpendicular polarization. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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