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Coherent Oscillations of Breathing Modes in Metal Nanoshells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Arman S. Kirakosyan  and
Tigran V. Shahbazyan
Arman S. Kirakosyan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA Department of Physics, Yerevan State University, 1 Alex Manoogian St., Yerevan, 375025, Armenia
Tigran V. Shahbazyan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA
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Abstract

We study coherent oscillations of radial breathing modes in metal nanoparticles with a dielectric core. Vibrational modes are impulsively excited by a rapid heating of the particle lattice that occurs after laser excitation, while the energy transfer to a surrounding dielectric leads to a damping of the oscillations. In nanoshells, the presence of two metal surfaces leads to a substantially different energy spectrum of acoustic vibrations. The lowest and first excited modes correspond to in-phase (n=0) and anti-phase (n=1) contractions of shell-core and shell-matrix interfaces respectively. We calculated the energy spectrum as well as the damping of nanoshell vibrational modes in the presence of surrounding medium, and found that the size-dependences of in-phase and anti-phase modes are different. At the same time, the oscillator strength of the symmetric mode is larger than that in solid nanoparticles leading to stronger oscillations in thin nanoshells.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 846: Symposium DD – Organic and Nanocomposite Optical Materials , 2004 , DD5.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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