Transient enhancement and spectral narrowing of the photothermal effect of plasmonic nanoparticles under pulsed excitation

Ekaterina Y. Lukianova-Hleb, Alexey N. Volkov, Xiangwei Wu, Dmitri O. Lapotko

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Abstract

The transient 100-fold enhancement and spectral narrowing to 2 nm of the photothermal conversion by solid gold nanospheres under near-infrared excitation with a short laser pulse is reported. This non-stationary effect was observed for a wide range of optical fluences starting from 10 mJ cm-2 for single nanospheres, their ensembles and aggregated clusters in water, in vitro and in vivo.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)772-776
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 6 2013

Keywords

  • gold nanoparticle
  • laser pulse
  • near-infrared
  • photothermal
  • plasmonic nanobubble

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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