Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 3145-3150Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl301055f
Keywords
Gold nanorods; polymer nanofibers; waveguides; surface plasmon resonance; optical sensing
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61036012, 60907036, 10974178]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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This paper reports the fabrication and characterization of polymer nanofibers embedded with gold nanorods in uniaxial alignment for applications in optical waveguiding and sensing. Using a waveguiding approach, we demonstrated highly efficient excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance in the embedded gold nanorods with a photon-to-plasmon-conversion efficiency as high as 70% for a single nanorod at its longitudinal resonance wavelength. On the basis of waveguiding polymer nanofibers embedded with gold nanorods, we further demonstrated compact optical humidity sensors with a response time of 110 ms and an operation optical power as low as 500 pW.
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