title: Rayleigh anomaly-surface plasmon polariton resonances in palladium and gold subwavelength hole arrays.
abstract: Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and Rayleigh anomalies (RAs) are two characteristic phenomena exhibited by periodic grating structures made of plasmonic materials. For Au subwavelength hole arrays, SPPs and RAs from opposite sides of the film can interact under certain conditions to produce highly intense, narrow spectral features called RA-SPP resonances. This paper reports how RA-SPP effects can be achieved in subwavelength hole arrays of Pd, a weak plasmonic material. Well-defined resonances are observed in measured and simulated optical transmission spectra with RASPP peaks as narrow as 45 nm (FWHM). Dispersion diagrams compiled from angle-resolved spectra show that RA-SPP resonances in Pd hole arrays shift in wavelength but do not decrease significantly in amplitude as the excitation angle is increased, in contrast with RA-SPP peaks in Au hole arrays. The apparent generality of the RA-SPP effect enables a novel route to optimize resonances in non-traditional plasmonic media.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: McMahon
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henzie
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Schatz
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Odom
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D010165:Palladium; D006046:Gold