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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 13, Pages 12375-12383Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012375
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- Japan Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program)
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Biological applications where nanoparticles are used in a cell environment with laser irradiation are rapidly emerging. Investigation of the localized heating effect due to the laser irradiation on the particle is required to preclude unintended thermal effects. While bulk temperature rise can be determined using macroscale measurement methods, observation of the actual temperature within the nanoscale domain around the particle is difficult and here we propose a method to measure the local temperature around a single gold nanoparticle in liquid, using white light scattering spectroscopy. Using 40-nm-diameter gold nanoparticles coated with thermo-responsive polymer, we monitored the localized heating effect through the plasmon peak shift. The shift occurs due to the temperature-dependent refractive index change in surrounding polymer medium. The results indicate that the particle experiences a temperature rise of around 10 degrees Celsius when irradiated with tightly focused irradiation of similar to 1 mW at 532 nm. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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