Facile Self-Assembly of Quantum Plasmonic Circuit Components

Toan Trong Tran; Jinghua Fang; Hao Zhang; Patrik Rath; Kerem Bray; Russell G Sandstrom; Olga Shimoni; Milos Toth; Igor Aharonovich

doi:10.1002/adma.201501142

Facile Self-Assembly of Quantum Plasmonic Circuit Components

Adv Mater. 2015 Jul 15;27(27):4048-53. doi: 10.1002/adma.201501142. Epub 2015 Jun 2.

Authors

Toan Trong Tran¹, Jinghua Fang², Hao Zhang¹, Patrik Rath³, Kerem Bray¹, Russell G Sandstrom¹, Olga Shimoni¹, Milos Toth¹, Igor Aharonovich¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia.
² Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories, Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, NSW, 2070, Australia.
³ Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.

PMID: 26036242
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201501142

Abstract

A facile and cost-effective self-assembly route to engineering of vital quantum plasmonic circuit components is reported. By modifying the surface energy of silver nanowires, the position and density of attached nanodiamonds can be maneuvered leading to silver nanowire/nanodiamond(s) hybrid nanostructures. These structures exhibit strong plasmonic coupling effects and thus hold promise to serve as quantum plasmonic components.

Keywords: nanodiamonds; plasmonic circuit components; self-assembly; silver nanowires; surface plasmon polariton.