A metallic microcones array-based plasmonic strcture is presented as an example for the purpose of experimentally exploring the dependence of ambient temperature and incident angle on resonance and absorption properties. The microcones array is fabricated using the technique of heavy ion tracking. The technique has advantages of large-area patterning, high-aspect ratio of unit dimension, controllable length, and multichoice of materials. Fabrication steps, mathematical fitting, and experimental measurements of optical absorption spectra are presented. To analyze the experimental data regarding thetemperature-dependence effect, a theoretical formula, a quasi-Gauss model, is applied to describe the relationship between temperature (T) and plasmonic wavelength (λSP). Our experimental results demonstrate that the variation of temperature and incident angle strongly affect the sensitivity of λSP and its absorption properties. Our experimental results indicate that this structure is capbale of acting as an optical sensor for detection of temperature and angular denpendence. |
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Absorption
Gold
Surface plasmons
Plasmonics
Ions
Near field optics
Optical sensors