Aluminum for Plasmonics
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Unlike silver and gold, aluminum has material properties that enable strong plasmon resonances spanning much of the visible region of the spectrum and into the ultraviolet. This extended response, combined with its natural abundance, low cost, and amenability to manufacturing processes, makes aluminum a highly promising material for commercial applications. Fabricating Al-based nanostructures whose optical properties correspond with theoretical predictions, however, can be a challenge. In this work, the Al plasmon resonance is observed to be remarkably sensitive to the presence of oxide within the metal. For Al nanodisks, we observe that the energy of the plasmon resonance is determined by, and serves as an optical reporter of, the percentage of oxide present within the Al. This understanding paves the way toward the use of aluminum as a low-cost plasmonic material with properties and potential applications similar to those of the coinage metals.
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- Authors
- Knight, M. W., King, N. S., Liu, L., Everitt, H. O., Nordlander, P., & Halas, N. J.
- Affiliations
- Rice University (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Halas, Naomi J.
- Venue
- ACS Nano
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2013-12-04
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 834-840
- ISSN
- 1936-0851 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-086X
- OpenAlex
- W2089552145
- Semantic Scholar
- 4bd276d87a05f2f497e95ce6e90d3606c8fcf76e
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- 40.49
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- hdl.handle.net
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- Funders
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-10-1-0469)
- Welch Foundation (C-1220, C-1222)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Keywords
- plasmon resonance, alumina, nanodiscs, nanostructuring
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