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The optical response of materials based on gold nanoparticle assemblies depends on many parameters connected to both material morphology and light excitation characteristics. The optical energy absorbed is then converted into heat through different nanoscale energy exchange mechanisms. This heating subsequently modifies itself the optical properties. We investigate the interplay between the optical and thermal responses of nanocomposite media under its theoretical aspect. In this first paper, the thermal response of gold nanoparticle assemblies under pulsed optical excitation is considered. Both conventional and original modelling approaches are presented. We first underline the role of electromagnetic interactions between particles in a dense assembly in its linear optical response. We then show how the interaction of light with matrix-embedded gold nanoparticles can result in the generation of thermal excitations through different energy exchange mechanisms. Finally, we demonstrate the possible significant influence of the heat carrier ballistic regime and phonon rarefaction in the cooling dynamics of an embedded gold nanoparticle subsequent to ultrafast pulsed laser excitation.
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About the authors Bruno Palpant is associate professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6. He conducts his research activities in the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris where he is in charge of the group for nonlinear optics and thermal effects in metal nanoparticles. He got his PhD in 1998 from University of Lyon (France) about quantum size effects in matrix-embedded noble metal clusters, before joining Keio University (Japan) for one year. He has been interested in the linear and nonlinear optical response of noble metal nanoparticles and more recently in their link with thermal conduction at small space and time scales.
Yannick Guillet got his PhD in Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6 in 2007, on the ultrafast dynamics of the nonlinear response of gold nanoparticle assemblies. He now develops femtosecond laser experiments as a post-doctoral researcher.
Majid Rashidi-Huyeh is associate professor at University of Sistan and Baluchistan, Zahedan (Iran). He achieved his PhD in 2006 about the influence of thermal effects on the optical response of metal-dielectric nanocomposite materials.
Dominique Prot is associate professor of physics at the Université Paris Sorbonne — Paris IV. His research is conducted at the Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6) on electromagnetic properties of nanocomposite materials and is mainly focused on electric field calculation in matrix-embedded metal nanoparticles.
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Palpant, B., Guillet, Y., Rashidi-Huyeh, M. et al. Gold nanoparticle assemblies: Thermal behaviour under optical excitation. Gold Bull 41, 105–115 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03216588
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