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Gap plasmonics of silver nanocube dimers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

We theoretically investigate gap plasmons for two silver nanocubes coupled through a molecular tunnel junction. In absence of tunneling, the red-shift of the bonding mode saturates with decreasing gap distance. Tunneling at small gap distances leads to a damping and slight blue-shift of the bonding mode, but no low-energy charge transfer plasmon mode appears in the spectra. This finding is in stark contrast to recent work of Tan et al. [Science 343, 1496 (2014)].

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@article{arxiv.1601.07689,
  title  = {Gap plasmonics of silver nanocube dimers},
  author = {Dario Knebl and Anton Hörl and Andreas Trügler and Johannes Kern and Joachim R. Krenn and Peter Puschnig and Ulrich Hohenester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07689},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures