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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 36, 期 1, 页码 1-8出版社
CHINESE PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2111224
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Scanning tunneling microscope induced luminescence; Molecular luminescence; Plasmonic nanocavity; Protrusion; Photophysics
It is found that an atomic-scale protrusion on the substrate can significantly enhance the quantum efficiency of a horizontal dipole emitter, similar to the situation with a protrusion at the tip apex in a silver plasmonic nanocavity. However, in a double-protrusion junction geometry with atomic-scale protrusion on both the tip and the substrate, there is no improvement in the quantum efficiency compared to the mono-protrusion situation.
Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) induced luminescence can be used to study various optoelectronic phenomena of single molecules and to understand the fundamental photophysical mechanisms involved. To clearly observe the molecule-specific luminescence, it is important to improve the quantum efficiency of molecules in the metallic nanocavity. In this work, we investigate theoretically the influence of an atomic-scale protrusion on the substrate on the emission properties of a point dipole oriented parallel to the substrate in a silver plasmonic nanocavity by electromagnetic simulations. We find that an atomic-scale protrusion on the substrate can strongly enhance the quantum efficiency of a horizontal dipole emitter, similar to the situation with a protrusion at the tip apex. We also consider a double-protrusion junction geometry in which there is an atomicscale protrusion on both the tip and the substrate, and find that this geometry does provide significantly enhanced emission compared with the protrusion-free situation, but does not appear to improve the quantum efficiency compared to the mono-protrusion situation either at the tip apex or on the substrate. These results are believed to be instructive for future STM induced electroluminescence and photoluminescence studies on single molecules.
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