Metal–Semiconductor Nanoparticle Hybrids Formed by Self-Organization: A Platform to Address Exciton–Plasmon Coupling

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• 作者：Christian Strelow ; T. Sverre Theuerholz ; Christian Schmidtke ; Marten Richter ; Jan-Philip Merkl ; Hauke Kloust ; Ziliang Ye ; Horst Weller ; Tony F. Heinz ; Andreas Knorr ; Holger Lange
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 10, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：8
• 页码：4811-4818
• 全文大小：624K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1530-6992

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Hybrid nanosystems composed of excitonic and plasmonic constituents can have different properties than the sum of of the two constituents, due to the exciton–plasmon interaction. Here, we report on a flexible model system based on colloidal nanoparticles that can form hybrid combinations by self-organization. The system allows us to tune the interparticle distance and to combine nanoparticles of different sizes and thus enables a systematic investigation of the exciton–plasmon coupling by a combination of optical spectroscopy and quantum-optical theory. We experimentally observe a strong influence of the energy difference between exciton and plasmon, as well as an interplay of nanoparticle size and distance on the coupling. We develop a full quantum theory for the luminescence dynamics and discuss the experimental results in terms of the Purcell effect. As the theory describes excitation as well as coherent and incoherent emission, we also consider possible quantum optical effects. We find a good agreement of the observed and the calculated luminescence dynamics induced by the Purcell effect. This also suggests that the self-organized hybrid system can be used as platform to address quantum optical effects.