报告简介：

In metallic nanoparticles (NPs), collective oscillation of conduction electrons can be excited upon light illumination. This is known as the excitation of localized surface plasmons (LSPs), giving rise to the concentration of incident light into deep subwavelength volumes. As the result, the electromagnetic (EM) fields can be significantly enhanced, enabling a number of significant applications, e.g. fluorescence enhancement and control, surface enhanced Raman scattering, optical sensing, and photo-thermal conversion. If placed in the proximity to a metallic film, the optical properties of NPs can be greatly altered and can be highly dependent on the distance between NPs and the film.
Here we discuss two types of film-coupled NPs resonators and their applications. The first one comprises a gold nanocube and a gold film with an extremely small gap spacing (<3 nm). When the nano-gap is doped with dye molecules, the gap resonances can strongly couple with the dye molecules, inducing not only spectral but also profound spatial modification to the gap modes. Specifically within the spectral span of a single gap mode in a nanotube-film cavity with a 3-nm wide gap, the introduction of narrowband J-aggregate dye molecules enables an anti-crossing behavior in the spectral response, splitting the single mode into two distinct spatial modes that are easily identified by their far-field scattering profiles. This provides us significant insights into the nature of coherent light-matter interaction at the nanometre scale.
The second structure acquires a similar configuration to the first one, comprising gold NPs separated from a gold mirror with a polymer spacer. An increase in relative humidity (RH) causes the spacer to expand, which induces a significant reduction of nanoparticle scattering intensity, as the scattering is highly dependent on the cavity-nanoparticle coupling that closely relates to the nanoparticle-mirror distance. This lithography-free structure enables a remarkable averaging sensitivity at 0.12 dB/% RH and 0.25 dB/% RH over RH range (45-75%), possessing an estimated resolution better than 0.5% RH with full reversibility and almost zero-hysteresis, exhibiting notable gas sensing potentials.

报告人：

Dr. Boyang Ding received his PhD degree from the University College Cork, Ireland in 2011. He then moved to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria working for the European Research Council project ‘Active Nanophotonics’. Since 2013, he has been a Research Fellow at the Physics Department, University of Otago, New Zealand. Since his PhD study, he has been investigating the optical properties of metallic/dielectric nanostructures, based on the self-assembly techniques. He authored a number of pioneering results in the physics of periodic and irregular ensembles of nanostructures. His current research focus is the development of nanophotonic platforms for quantum information technologies and optical sensing applications.
 
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