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Tuning the Plasmonic Extinction Resonances of Hexagonal Arrays of Ag Nanoparticles

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Plasmonically enhanced effects on a self-assembled, hexagonal array layer of ~4-nm silver nanoparticles are analyzed using three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D FDTD) simulations and compared against experimentally measured extinction spectra. The effect of particle size, lattice spacing, and lack of monodispersity of the hexagonal array of silver nanoparticles on the extinction resonance was investigated to help determine optimal design specifications for efficient organic solar power harvesting.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the National Science Foundation for the support of this work under Grant No. ECCS-1202465. The FDTD code utilized is provided by Lumerical Solutions Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada. ImageJ and its Java source code are in the public domain and are freely available from the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Aruna Ravi, Antriksh Luthra & James V. Coe

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Aruna Ravi, Fernando L. Teixeira & Paul R. Berger

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Antriksh Luthra

  4. ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Fernando L. Teixeira

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Ravi, A., Luthra, A., Teixeira, F.L. et al. Tuning the Plasmonic Extinction Resonances of Hexagonal Arrays of Ag Nanoparticles. Plasmonics 10, 1505–1512 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-9963-9

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