Figure 9.

Plasmonic photopolymerization on a silver nanodisk. (a) AFM image of the hybrid nanosystem resulting from local polymerization induced by the dipolar plasmonic induced field at λ = 514 nm using an incident wave vector parallel to the C₂ axis, and a linearly polarized field E represented by the white arrow. (b) Extinction spectra of arrays of different kinds of hybrid plasmonic structures (see text for details). (c) Polar diagram showing the wavelength of plasmonic resonance of an array of hybrid particles like that of figure (a), as a function of the angle of polarization θ of the white light used for extinction spectroscopy (represented on the right). (a–c) Adapted with permission from ref (90). Copyright 2007 American Physical Society.