Physics & Astronomy ETDs

Publication Date

7-12-2014

Abstract

We examine coupled metal nanoparticle/semiconductor hybrid nano-stuctures and analyze the effect that the surface response metal nanoparticles (MNP) has on the transport properties of the system. This analysis is accomplished by treating surface plasmons as quantum oscillators. We find that charge carriers traveling in the nearby semiconductors experience a repulsion due to the ground state energy of the quantum SP (QSP). This effect is shown to be the quantum analogue of the ponderomotive effect found in plasma physics. We then extend the theory to examine the transport properties of carbon nano-tube excitons in the presence of localized SPs and show that this system maps onto a Fano-Anderson Hamiltonian. Through numerical simulation, we show that the emission patterns of the system are severely modified by the presence of localized surface plasmons.

Degree Name

Physics

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Physics & Astronomy

First Committee Member (Chair)

Piryatinski, Andrei

Second Committee Member

Rudolph, Wolfgang

Third Committee Member

Hua, Guo

Project Sponsors

Los Alamos National Lab

Language

English

Keywords

Condensed Matter, Nanotechnology, Optics, Plasmonics, Quantum Physics

Document Type

Dissertation

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