Field enhancement in subnanometer metallic gaps
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UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia CondensadaPublisher
The American Physical SocietyDate
2011-05-19Citation
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.193404
Physycal Review B 83.19 (2011): 193404
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1098-0121 (print); 1550-235X (online)DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.193404Funded by
A. G. M. acknowledges financial support from the EU (Grant No. NMP3- SL-2008- 214107-Nanomagma) and the Spanish MICINN (“MAGPLAS” Grant No.MAT2008-06765-C02-01/NAN and “FUNCOAT” CONSOLIDER INGENIO Grant No. 2010 CSD2008-00023). J. C. C. acknowledges support from the EU through the BIMORE network (Grant No. MRTN-CT- 2006-035859) and the Spanish MICINN (Grant No. FIS2008- 04209). D. N. and D. R. W. acknowledge support from the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant No. C-1636) and the Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice University (LANCER)Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.193404Subjects
FísicaRights
© 2011 American Physical SocietyAbstract
Motivated by recent experiments, we present here a theoretical analysis of the optical response of sharp gold electrodes separated by a subnanometer gap. In particular, we have used classical finite difference time domain simulations to investigate the electric-field distribution in these nanojunctions upon illumination. Our results show a strong confinement of the field within the gap region, resulting in a large enhancement compared to the incident field. Enhancement factors exceeding 103 are found for interelectrode distances on the order of a few angstrom, which are fully compatible with the experimental findings. Such huge enhancements originate from the coupling of the incident light to the evanescent field of hybrid plasmons involving charge density oscillations in both electrodes
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Google Scholar:García-Martín, A.
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Ward, D. R.
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Natelson, D.
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Cuevas Rodríguez, Juan Carlos
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