Journal
PLASMONICS
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 1379-1385Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9549-3
Keywords
Localized surface plasmon resonance ( LSPR); Surface plasmon polariton (SPP); Fano interference; Spectroscopic ellipsometry; Refractive index sensing
Funding
- IWT Flanders
- FWO Flanders
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Localized and propagating surface plasmon resonances are known to show very pronounced interactions if they are simultaneously excited in the same nanostructure. Here, we study the Fano interference that occurs between localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes by means of phase-sensitive spectroscopic ellipsometry. The sample structures consist of periodic gratings of gold nanodisks on top of a continuous gold layer and a thin dielectric spacer, in which the structural dimensions were tuned in such a way that the dipolar LSPR mode and the propagating SPP modes are excited in the same spectral region. We observe pronounced anti-crossing and strongly asymmetric line shapes when both modes move to each other's vicinity, accompanied of largely increased phase differences between the respective plasmon resonances. Moreover, we show that the anti-crossing can be exploited to increase the refractive index sensitivity of the localized modes dramatically, which result in largely increased values for the figure-of-merit which reaches values between 24 and 58 for the respective plasmon modes.
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