Optical properties of coupled metal-semiconductor and metal-molecule nanocrystal complexes: Role of multipole effects
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 77 (16), 165301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.77.165301
Abstract
We theoretically investigate the effects of interaction between an optical dipole (semiconductor quantum dot or molecule) and metal nanoparticles. The calculated absorption spectra of hybrid structures demonstrate strong effects of interference coming from the exciton-plasmon coupling. In particular, the absorption spectra acquire characteristic asymmetric line shapes and strong antiresonances. We present here an exact solution of the problem beyond the dipole approximation and find that the multipole treatment of the interaction is crucial for the understanding of strongly interacting exciton-plasmon nanosystems. Interestingly, the visibility of the exciton resonance becomes greatly enhanced for small interparticle distances due to the interference phenomenon, multipole effects, and electromagnetic enhancement. We find that the destructive interference is particularly strong. Using our exact theory, we show that the interference effects can be experimentally observed in the exciting systems even at room temperature.Keywords
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