Fabrication of periodical structure and shape-induced modulating spectroscopy of Au nanoparticles

This paper presents optical property of the periodical bowties structure of Au nanoparticles on glass substrate fabricated by high-resolution electron beam lithography. Numerical calculation is used to examine the shape-induced surface plasmon enhancement and extinction spectroscopy by using Finite-Difference Time Domain algorithm and Lorentz model of surface plasmon. The calculated extinction spectra of the periodical nanoparticles are consistent with the experimental results. The influence of the geometrical shape on the spectral properties of bowtie nanoparticles is discussed. This investigation may help one to design plasmonic sub-wavelength devices with desired spectral properties.