title: Fano Resonance in an Electrically Driven Plasmonic Device.
abstract: We present an electrically driven plasmonic device consisting of a gold nanoparticle trapped in a gap between two electrodes. The tunneling current in the device generates plasmons, which decay radiatively. The emitted spectrum extends up to an energy that depends on the applied voltage. Characterization of the electrical conductance at low temperatures allows us to extract the voltage drop on each tunnel barrier and the corresponding emitted spectrum. In several devices we find a pronounced sharp asymmetrical dip in the spectrum, which we identify as a Fano resonance. Finite-difference time-domain calculations reveal that this resonance is due to interference between the nanoparticle and electrodes dipolar fields and can be conveniently controlled by the structural parameters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Yuval
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Vardi
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Eyal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cohen-Hoshen
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shalem
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Israel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bar-Joseph
keywords: Electrically driven plasmon; Fano resonance; metallic nanoparticles; photonic devices; plasmonics; single electron transistor