Nature Communications (May 2021)

Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions

  • Wen Chen,
  • Philippe Roelli,
  • Aqeel Ahmed,
  • Sachin Verlekar,
  • Huatian Hu,
  • Karla Banjac,
  • Magalí Lingenfelder,
  • Tobias J. Kippenberg,
  • Giulia Tagliabue,
  • Christophe Galland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22679-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Metallic nanojunctions support localised plasmon resonances and boost light matter interactions, but dynamical phenomena are poorly understood. Here, the authors report intrinsic photoluminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions, originating from light-induced atomic scale restructuring of the metal.