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Influence of an Electron Beam Exposure on the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles

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Electron beam imaging is a common technique used for characterizing the morphology of plasmonic nanostructures. During the imaging process, the electron beam interacts with traces of organic material in the chamber and produces a well-know layer of amorphous carbon over the specimen under investigation. In this paper, we investigate the effect of this carbon adsorbate on the spectral position of the surface plasmon in individual gold nanoparticles as a function of electron exposure dose. We find an optimum dose for which the plasmonic response of the nanoparticle is not affected by the imaging process.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement no 306772. This project is in cooperation with the regional council of Burgundy under PARI SMT3 and the Labex ACTION program (contract ANR-11-LABX-01-01). M. S. acknowledges the support of the Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor Program (R2012T01) and the Foundation for special project on the Integration of Industry, Education and Research of Jiangsu Province (BY2012028).

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Song, M., des Francs, G.C. & Bouhelier, A. Influence of an Electron Beam Exposure on the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles. Plasmonics 9, 343–348 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9630-y

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