• 文献标题:   Graphene Plasmon Enhanced Vibrational Sensing of Surface-Adsorbed Layers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI YL, YAN HG, FARMER DB, MENG X, ZHU WJ, OSGOOD RM, HEINZ TF, AVOURIS P
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, plasmon, polymer, vibration, enhancement, induced transparency, infrared spectroscopy
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   IBM Corp
  • 被引频次:   128
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl404824w
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We characterize the influence of graphene nanoribbon plasmon excitation on the vibrational spectra of surface-absorbed polymers. As the detuning between the graphene plasmon frequency and a vibrational frequency of the polymer decreases, the vibrational peak intensity first increases and is then transformed into a region of narrow optical transparency as the frequencies overlap. Examples of this are provided by the carbonyl vibration in thin films of poly(methyl methacrylate) and polyvinylpyrrolidone. The signal depth of the plasmon-induced transparency is found to be 5 times larger than that of light attenuated by the carbonyl vibration alone. The plasmon-vibrational mode coupling and the resulting fields are analyzed using both a phenomenological model of electromagnetically coupled oscillators and finite-difference time-domain simulations. It is shown that this coupling and the resulting absorption enhancement can be understood in terms of near-field electromagnetic interactions.