title: Fano resonance-induced negative optical scattering force on plasmonic nanoparticles.
abstract: We demonstrate theoretically that Fano resonance can induce a negative optical scattering force acting on plasmonic nanoparticles in the visible light spectrum when an appropriate manipulating laser beam is adopted. Under the illumination of a zeroth-order Bessel beam, the plasmonic nanoparticle at its Fano resonance exhibits a much stronger forward scattering than backward scattering and consequently leads to a net longitudinal backward optical scattering force, termed Fano resonance-induced negative optical scattering force. The extinction spectra obtained based on the Mie theory show that the Fano resonance arises from the interference of simultaneously excited multipoles, which can be either a broad electric dipole mode and a narrow electric quadrupole mode, or a quadrupole and an octupole mode mediated by the broad electric dipole. Such Fano resonance-induced negative optical scattering force is demonstrated to occur for core-shell, homogeneous, and hollow metallic particles and can therefore be expected to be universal for many other nanostructures exhibiting Fano resonance, adding considerably to the flexibility of optical micromanipulation on the plasmonic nanoparticles. More interestingly, the flexible tunability of the Fano resonance by particle morphology opens up the possibility of tailoring the optical scattering force accordingly, offering an additional degree of freedom to optical selection and sorting of plasmonic nanoparticles.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics (SKLSP) and Department of Physics, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China.
authors: Huajin
authors: H
authors: Chen
authors: Shiyang
authors: S
authors: Liu
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Zi
authors: Zhifang
authors: Z
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D010316:Particle Size; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D006046:Gold
keywords: Fano resonance; extinction spectra; negative optical scattering force; optical selection; plasmonics