Optical properties of nanopatch antennas based on plasmonic nanoparticles and ruthenium complex

Abstract

In this work, a significant reduction (up to 7 ns) of the excited states lifetime of the Ru dye (with a decay time of 850 ns) in an inhomogeneous «aluminium - silver nano-prism system (nano-patch antenna, NPA)», as well as an increase in the photoluminescence emitter to 2-3 times. The increase in the spontaneous emission rate of this substance is caused by the Purcell effect. The Purcell coefficient for the emitter in the cavity with hexagonal silver particles was 120. This decrease in the spontaneous emission decay time in the nano-patch antenna configuration is associated with an increase in the local density of photon states in the plasmon resonator, which increases the probability of a spontaneous transition from the excited state of the emitter. The results obtained by shortening the spontaneous emission time and increasing the intensity of the emitter radiation in a nano-patch antenna show possible prospects for using quantum dots and individual molecules with shorter luminescence times in nano-patch antennas. Such nano-patch antennas can form the basis for creating compact high-speed optical devices. Modeling in the mathematical package Comsol Multiphysics showed that the maximum values of the Purcell factors can exceed 104 in the NPA.