title: Efficient design, accurate fabrication and effective characterization of plasmonic quasicrystalline arrays of nano-spherical particles.
abstract: In this paper, the scattering properties of two-dimensional quasicrystalline plasmonic lattices are investigated. We combine a newly developed synthesis technique, which allows for accurate fabrication of spherical nanoparticles, with a recently published variation of generalized multiparticle Mie theory to develop the first quantitative model for plasmonic nano-spherical arrays based on quasicrystalline morphologies. In particular, we study the scattering properties of Penrose and Ammann- Beenker gold spherical nanoparticle array lattices. We demonstrate that by using quasicrystalline lattices, one can obtain multi-band or broadband plasmonic resonances which are not possible in periodic structures. Unlike previously published works, our technique provides quantitative results which show excellent agreement with experimental measurements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Farhad A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Namin
authors.affiliation: Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA.
authors.forename: Yu A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Yuwen
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Anastasios H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Panaretos
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Douglas H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Theresa S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Mayer