AVS 56th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Applied Surface Science Thursday Sessions
       Session AS1-ThM

Invited Paper AS1-ThM3
Interrogating Surface Plasmons and Carbon Nanotubes with Four-Wave-Mixing Microscopy

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8:40 am, Room C2

Session: Advances in Surface Analysis
Presenter: E.O. Potma, University of California, Irvine
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Dual color four-wave-mixing is used to visualize the surface plasmon resonances of individual gold nanowires and the electronic excitations in single carbon nanotubes. The strong nonlinear signals, which are detected at the anti-Stokes frequency, originate from the electronic response of the nanostructures. In gold nanowires, the collective electron motions give rise to strong coherent anti-Stokes signals that can be used to study the orientation and relative strength of the nanostructure's plasmon resonances. In single-walled carbon nanotubes, coherent anti-Stokes contrast can be used to map the orientation and spatial delocalization of electronic excitations in individual nanotubes. Coherent anti-Stokes imaging of the material's electronic response allows for the first close-ups of the coherent nonlinear properties of individual nanostructures and molecules.