Plasmonic Fano resonances in compositional heterogenous Al- Au nanorod dimers

Abstract

We have investigated theoretically the plasmon resonance coupling in compositional heterogenous Al-Au nanorod dimers organized in a close proximity by end-to-end. It has been proved that the destructive interference between the bright dipole mode from Al nanorod and the dark quadrupole mode from Au nanorod nearby results in the appearance of apparent Fano resonance in the extinction spectra. The Fano resonance response on the structural dimension modifications in the proposed nanorod dimers have been estimated and determined. The Al-Au heterogeneous nanorod dimer shows a high sensitivity to the surrounding environment with a local surface plasmon resonance figure of merit of 7.6, which enables its promising applications in plasmonic sensing and detection.