Plasmonic Coupling of One-Dimensional Palladium Nanoparticle Chains

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the plasmonic coupling effects on the localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) of palladium nanoparticle chains. We show the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and the extinction cross-section spectra of near-contact palladium nanoparticle chains from monomer to pentamer. The extinction spectra of chains nanoparticles were measured by far-field polarization spectroscopy over a large spectral range (ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared) and compared with numerical calculations based on finite element method (FEM). For single palladium nanoparticle, the LSPR phenomenon appears in ultraviolet region. By addition of palladium nanoparticles to the chain, we observe a tunable red-shifting on the spectral position due to plasmonic coupling between palladium nanoparticles and a systematic spectral amplitude enhancement with the appearance of new modes of resonance.