title: Processing and near-field optical properties of self-assembled plasmonic nanoparticle networks.
abstract: We report on recent progress in the production and the deposition on surfaces of dielectric materials of self-assembled metallic nanoparticle systems able to organize into branched networks. We emphasize the interest of these new objects for tailoring novel near-field optical properties that could be the basis for optical energy transport in systems of extremely reduced sizes. The experimental optical spectra of such chain networks in solution can be very well reproduced by applying the coupled-dipole approximation scheme. In this paper, we apply this method to investigate the near-field optical properties of self-assembled plasmonic nanoparticle networks deposited on transparent surfaces.
authors.affiliation: NanoSciences Group, CEMES/CNRS, UPR 8011, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, 31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bonell
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sanchot
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dujardin
authors.forename: Renaud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Péchou
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Girard
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mann