Plasmonic sensing using Babinet's principle
arXiv:2305.09290 · doi:10.1515/nanoph-2023-0317
Abstract
Developing methods to sense local variations in nearby materials, such as their refractive index and thickness, is important in different fields including chemistry and biomedical applications, among others. Localized surface plasmons (LSPs) excited in plasmonic nanostructures have demonstrated to be useful in this context due to the spectral location of their associated resonances being sensitive to changes near the plasmonic structures. In this manuscript, Babinet's principle is explored by exploiting LSP resonances excited in complementary metal-dielectric cylindrical plasmonic structures (plasmonic particle-dimers and aperture-dimers in our case). Both plasmonic structures are evaluated numerically and experimentally using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS), providing a full physical understanding of the complementary nature of the excited LSP resonances. The studied plasmonic structures are then exploited for dielectric sensing under two configurations: when a thin dielectric film is positioned atop the plasmonic structures and when the analyte surrounds/fills the plasmonic particles/apertures. The complementary sensing performance of both proposed structures is also evaluated, showing the approximate validity of the Babinet principle with sensitivities values of up to 700 nm/RIU for thin dielectric sensing.
arXiv comment24 pages, 5 figures
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