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ACS NANO
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 402-415出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06589
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plexcitons; oscillator strength; spectral width; plasmons; excitons; J-aggregates; FDTD method
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST Nanomission Project), Government of India [SR/NM/NS-23/2016]
- Indo-US Joint R&D Network Joint Center on Quantum Plasmonics of Hybrid Nano-assemblies [IUSSTF/3-2014]
- J. C. Bose National Fellowship of DST
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
Strong coupling interactions between plasmon and exciton-based excitations have been proposed to be useful in the design of optoelectronic systems. However, the role of various optical parameters dictating the plasmon-exciton (plexciton) interactions is less understood. Herein, we propose an inequality for achieving strong coupling between plasmons and excitons through appropriate variation of their oscillator strengths and spectral widths. These aspects are found to be consistent with experiments on two sets of free-standing plexcitonic systems obtained by (i) linking fluorescein isothiocyanate on Ag nanoparticles of varying sizes through silane coupling and (ii) electrostatic binding of cyanine dyes on polystyrenesulfonate-coated Au nanorods of varying aspect ratios. Being covalently linked on Ag nanoparticles, fluorescein isothiocyanate remains in monomeric state, and its high oscillator strength and narrow spectral width enable us to approach the strong coupling limit. In contrast, in the presence of polystyrenesulfonate, monomeric forms of cyanine dyes exist in equilibrium with their aggregates: Coupling is not observed for monomers and H-aggregates whose optical parameters are unfavorable. The large aggregation number, narrow spectral width, and extremely high oscillator strength of J-aggregates of cyanines permit effective delocalization of excitons along the linear assembly of chromophores, which in turn leads to efficient coupling with the plasmons. Further, the results obtained from experiments and theoretical models are jointly employed to describe the plexcitonic states, estimate the coupling strengths, and rationalize the dispersion curves. The experimental results and the theoretical analysis presented here portray a way forward to the rational design of plexcitonic systems attaining the strong coupling limits.
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