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Polarization dependent, surface plasmon induced photoconductance in gold nanorod arrays

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

We report on the photoconductance in two-dimensional arrays of gold nanorods which is strongly enhanced at the frequency of the longitudinal surface plasmon of the nanorods. The arrays are formed by a combination of droplet deposition and stamping of gold nanorod solutions on SiO2 substrates. We find that the plasmon induced photoconductance is sensitive to the linear polarization of the exciting photons. We interpret the occurrence of the photoconductance as a bolometric enhancement of the arrays' conductance upon excitation of the longitudinal surface plasmon resonance of the nanorods.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1002,
  title  = {Polarization dependent, surface plasmon induced photoconductance in gold nanorod arrays},
  author = {S. Diefenbach and N. Erhard and J. Schopka and A. Martin and C. Karnetzky and D. Iacopino and A. W. Holleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1002},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures