Gold Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Biosensing: The Role of Metal Crystallinity and Nanoscale Roughness

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2011-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/1111.0811v1

Physics

Optics

19 pages, including supplementary information

Scientific paper

10.1007/s12668-011-0015-4

Noble metal nanoparticles show specific optical properties due to the excitation of localized surface plasmons that make them attractive candidates for highly sensitive bionanosensors. The underlying physical principle is either an analyte-induced modification of the dielectric properties of the medium surrounding the nanoparticle or an increase of the excitation and emission rates of an optically active analyte by the resonantly enhanced plasmon field. Either way, besides the nanoparticle geometry the dielectric properties of the metal and nanoscale surface roughness play an important role for the sensing performance. As the underlying principles are however not yet well understood, we aim here at an improved understanding by analyzing the optical characteristics of lithographically fabricated nanoparticles with different crystallinity and roughness parameters. We vary these parameters by thermal annealing and apply a thin gold film as a model system to retrieve modifications in the dielectric function. We investigate, on one hand, extinction spectra that reflect the far-field properties of the plasmonic excitation and, on the other hand, surface-enhanced Raman spectra that serve as a near-field probe. Our results provide improved insight into localized surface plasmons and their application in bionanosensing.

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