Yttrium hydride nanoantennas for active plasmonics

Nikolai Strohfeldt; Andreas Tittl; Martin Schäferling; Frank Neubrech; Uwe Kreibig; Ronald Griessen; Harald Giessen

doi:10.1117/12.2061364

17 August 2014 Yttrium hydride nanoantennas for active plasmonics

Nikolai Strohfeldt, Andreas Tittl, Martin Schäferling, Frank Neubrech, Uwe Kreibig, Ronald Griessen, Harald Giessen

Proceedings Volume 9163, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XII; 916305 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2061364
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A key challenge for the development of active plasmonic nanodevices is the lack of materials with fully controllable plasmonic properties. In this work, we demonstrate that a plasmonic resonance in top-down nanofabricated yttrium antennas can be completely and reversibly turned on and off using hydrogen exposure. We fabricate arrays of yttrium nanorods and optically observe in extinction spectra the hydrogen-induced phase transition between the metallic yttrium dihydride and the insulating trihydride. Whereas the yttrium dihydride nanostructures exhibit a pronounced particle plasmon resonance, the transition to yttrium trihydride leads to a complete vanishing of the resonant behavior. The plasmonic resonance in the dihydride state can be tuned over a wide wavelength range by simply varying the size of the nanostructures. Furthermore, we develop an analytical diffusion model to explain the temporal behaviour of the hydrogen loading and unloading process observed in our experiments and gain information about the thermodynamics of our device. Thus, our nanorod system serves as a versatile basic building block for active plasmonic devices ranging from switchable perfect absorbers to active local heating control elements.

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Nikolai Strohfeldt, Andreas Tittl, Martin Schäferling, Frank Neubrech, Uwe Kreibig, Ronald Griessen, and Harald Giessen "Yttrium hydride nanoantennas for active plasmonics", Proc. SPIE 9163, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XII, 916305 (17 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2061364

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