UV-VIS and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization

UV-VIS and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization

Challa S.S.R. Kumar Editor UV-VIS and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization With 278 Figures and 5 Tables

Editor Challa S.S.R. Kumar Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices Baton Rouge, LA, USA ISBN 978-3-642-27593-7 ISBN 978-3-642-27594-4 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27594-4 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013930307 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science + Business Media (www.springer.com)

Editor-in-Chief Challa S.S.R. Kumar Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices Baton Rouge, LA USA v

Contents 1 Geometrically Tunable Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles... 1 Hao Jing, Li Zhang, and Hui Wang 2 Optical Properties of Metallic Semishells: Breaking the Symmetry of Plasmonic Nanoshells... 75 Jian Ye and Pol Van Dorpe 3 Exploiting the Tunable Optical Response of Metallic Nanoshells... 99 Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez and Umapada Pal 4 UV-Vis Spectroscopy for Characterization of Metal Nanoparticles Formed from Reduction of Metal Ions During Ultrasonic Irradiation... 151 Kenji Okitsu 5 Size-Dependent Optical Properties of Metallic Nanostructures... 179 Lucía B. Scaffardi, Daniel C. Schinca, Marcelo Lester, Fabián A. Videla, Jesica M. J. Santillán, and Ricardo M. Abraham Ekeroth 6 Modeling and Optical Characterization of the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Tailored Metal Nanoparticles... 231 J. Toudert 7 Tailoring the Optical Properties of Silver Nanomaterials for Diagnostic Applications... 287 Jae-Seung Lee 8 Optical Properties of Oxide Films Dispersed with Nanometal Particles... 311 Moriaki Wakaki and Eisuke Yokoyama 9 Optical Properties of Silicon Nanowires... 357 Michael M. Adachi, Mohammedreza Khorasaninejad, Simarjeet S. Saini, and Karim S. Karim vii

viii Contents 10 Optical Properties of Oxide Nanomaterials... 387 A. B. Djurišić, X. Y. Chen, J. A. Zapien, Y. H. Leung, and A. M. C. Ng 11 UV-VIS Spectroscopy/Photoluminescence for Characterization of Silica Coated Core-shell Nanomaterials... 431 Masih Darbandi 12 Optical and Excitonic Properties of Crystalline ZnS Nanowires... 453 Rui Chen, Dehui Li, Qihua Xiong, and Handong Sun 13 Optical Properties of Nanocomposites... 485 Timothy O Connor and Mikhail Zamkov 14 Biomedical and Biochemical Tools of F orster Resonance Energy Transfer Enabled by Colloidal Quantum Dot Nanocrystals for Life Sciences... 531 Urartu Özg ur Şafak Şeker and Hilmi Volkan Demir 15 Probing Photoluminescence Dynamics in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal/Fullerene Heterodimers with Single Molecule Spectroscopy... 561 Zhihua Xu and Mircea Cotlet Index... 591

List of Contributors Michael M. Adachi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada X. Y. Chen Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Rui Chen Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Mircea Cotlet Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA Masih Darbandi Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg- Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany Hilmi Volkan Demir Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Physics and UNAM Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore A. B. Djurišić Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Ricardo M. Abraham Ekeroth Grupo de Óptica de Sólidos-Elfo, Centro de Investigaciones en Física e Ingeniería del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Instituto de Física Arroyo Seco, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Hao Jing Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Karim S. Karim Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada ix

x List of Contributors Mohammedreza Khorasaninejad Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada Jae-Seung Lee Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Marcelo Lester Grupo de Óptica de Sólidos-Elfo, Centro de Investigaciones en Física e Ingeniería del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Instituto de Física Arroyo Seco, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Y. H. Leung Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Dehui Li Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore A. M. C. Ng Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Nanostructure Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Division of Physical Sciences, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China Timothy O Connor Department of Physics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA Kenji Okitsu Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan Umapada Pal Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales (CMAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain Instituto de Óptica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IO-CSIC), Madrid, Spain Simarjeet S. Saini Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada Jesica M. J. Santillán Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CIOp), CONICET La Plata-CIC, La Plata, Argentina Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Lucía B. Scaffardi Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CIOp), CONICET La Plata-CIC, La Plata, Argentina

List of Contributors xi Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Daniel C. Schinca Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CIOp), CONICET La Plata-CIC, La Plata, Argentina Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Urartu Özg ur Şafak Şeker Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Physics and UNAM Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Handong Sun Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore J. Toudert Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Pol Van Dorpe imec vzw, Leuven, Belgium Physics Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Fabián A. Videla Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CIOp), CONICET La Plata- CIC, La Plata, Argentina Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Moriaki Wakaki Department of Optical and Imaging Science & Technology, School of Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan Hui Wang Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Qihua Xiong Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Division of Microelectronics, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Zhihua Xu Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA Jian Ye imec vzw, Leuven, Belgium Chemistry Department, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Eisuke Yokoyama Department of Optical and Imaging Science & Technology, School of Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

xii List of Contributors Mikhail Zamkov Department of Physics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA J. A. Zapien Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Li Zhang Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA