Overview of project B06

Relaxation Pathways for Collective Electronic Excitations

Meyer zu Heringdorf

In project B06, the phase-fronts of femtosecond surface plasmon polariton (SPP) pulses are controlled on a sub-wavelength scale by using structured grating couplers. This provides the opportunity to create tailored SPP pulses which induce field strengths and polarizations at the surface that are not achievable with optical methods. The figure illustrates how the project uses Archimedean spirals on Au(111) platelets [1] to create an SPP focus [2, 3]. It is important to note that after SPP excitation the phase fronts propagate to the center of the spiral, and that the exciting femtosecond laser pulses are not present any more when the SPP focus is formed. This spatiotemporal separation allows to investigate the SPP focus in the absence of light, which constitutes a unique experimental situation. The aim of project B06 is to investigate the coupling of SPPs to the electron system in the plasmonic strong-field regime, and to investigate the related (plasmo)emission [4] of electrons with pump-probe photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). In a normal-incidence geometry for the laser-pulses [5], this method allows imaging the propagation of SPPs with sub-wavelength resolution on a femtosecond time-scale [6]. Furthermore, the electrons emitted from the focus can not only be analyzed with respect to their in spatial distribution, but also their momentum and/or energy-distribution is accessible to the experiment. Project B06 collaborates closely with Project A04, where field-enhancement effects in plasmonic particle-dimers are of interest [7].

 

Figure: (top) Au (111) platelet with a grating coupler in the shape of an Archimedean spiral, structured using focused ion beams. (bottom left) Design of the grating coupler. If the shown spiral is excited with circularly polarized light results in circular SPP phase-fronts and a SPP focus in the center oft he spiral. (bottom right) PEEM image of the SPP phase fronts and the resulting focus. The work-function of the sample has been lowered by Cs to make the phase-fronts visible.

 

1. Radha, B., et al., Movable Au microplates as fluorescence enhancing substrates for live cells.Nano Research, 2010. 3(10): p. 738-747.

2. Spektor, G., et al., Revealing the subfemtosecond dynamics of orbital angular momentum in nanoplasmonic vortices. Science, 2017. 355(6330): p. 1187-1191.

3. Frank, B., et al., Short-range surface plasmonics: Localized electron emission dynamics from a 60-nm spot on an atomically flat single-crystalline gold surface. Sci Adv, 2017. 3(7): p. e1700721.

4. Podbiel, D., et al., Imaging the Nonlinear Plasmoemission Dynamics of Electrons from Strong Plasmonic Fields. Nano Lett, 2017. 17(11): p. 6569-6574.

5. Kahl, P., et al., Normal-Incidence Photoemission Electron Microscopy (NI-PEEM) for Imaging Surface Plasmon Polaritons. Plasmonics, 2014. 9(6): p. 1401-1407.

6. Kahl, P., et al., Direct Observation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation and Interference by Time-Resolved Imaging in Normal-Incidence Two Photon Photoemission Microscopy. Plasmonics, 2018. 13(1): p. 239-246.

7. Schumacher, L., et al., Precision Plasmonics with Monomers and Dimers of Spherical Gold Nanoparticles: Nonequilibrium Dynamics at the Time and Space Limits. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019. 123(21): p. 13181-13191.

Publications


2023

Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, Bettina Frank, Harald Giessen and Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf
Focused Surface Plasmon Polaritons Coherently Couple to Electronic States in Above-Threshold Electron Emission
Commun. Phys. 6, 15 (2023)
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01128-w

Marko A. Kriegel, Karim Omambac, Steffen Franzka, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Incommensurability and Negative Thermal Expansion of Single Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Appl. Surf. Sci. 624, 157156 (2023)
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.157156

Alexander Neuhaus, Pascal Dreher, Florian Schütz, Helder Marchetto, Torsten Franz and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy in a Low Energy Electron Microscope
Struct. Dyn. 10, 064304 (2023)
DOI: 10.1063/4.0000216

Thomas Bauer, Timothy J. Davis, Bettina Frank, Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, Tim C. Meiler, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, L. Kuipers and Harald Giessen
Ultrafast Time Dynamics of Plasmonic Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum
ACS Photonics 10, 4252 (2023)
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01036

Timothy J. Davis, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Harald Giessen
Topology of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Integer and Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum
ACS Photonics 10, 3772 (2023)
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01024

Karim Omambac, Marko A. Kriegel, Marin Petrović, Birk Finke, Christian Brand, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Interplay of Kinetic Limitations and Disintegration: Selective Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Borophene Monolayers on Metal Substrates
ACS Nano 17, 17946 (2023)
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c04038

 

2022

Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, Alexander Neuhaus, Bettina Frank, Harald Giessen, Michael Horn-von Hoegen and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Quantitative Determination of the Electric Field Strength in a Plasmon Focus from Ponderomotive Energy Shifts
Nanophotonics 11, 3687 (2022)
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0284

 

2021

David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, A. Rödl, Torsten Franz, Oliver Schaff, Michael Horn-von Hoegen and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Implementation and Operation of a Fiber-Coupled CMOS Detector in a Low Energy Electron Microscope
Ultramicroscopy 221, 113180 (2020)
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113180

Karim Omambac, Marin Petrović, Pantelis Bampoulis, Christian Brand, Marko A. Kriegel, Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, Ulrich Hagemann, Nils Hartmann, Philipp Valerius, Thomas Michely, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Segregation-Enhanced Epitaxy of Borophene on Ir(111) by Thermal Decomposition of Borazine
ACS Nano 15, 7421 (2021)
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00819

Karim Omambac, Marko Kriegel, Christian Brand, B. Finke, Laurenz Kremeyer, H. Hattab, David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, Davood Momeni Pakdehi, Klaus Pierz, H.W. Schumacher, Marin Petrović, Arie van Houselt, B. Poelsema, M.C. Tringides and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Non-Conventional Bell-Shaped Diffuse Scattering in Low-Energy Electron Diffraction from High-Quality Epitaxial 2D-Materials
Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 241902 (2021)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0051220

Giriraj Jnawali, Davide Boschetto, Leandro M. Malard, Tony Heinz, Germán Sciaini, F. Thiemann, Thomas Payer, Laurenz Kremeyer, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Hot Carrier Transport Limits the Displacive Excitation of Coherent Phonons in Bismuth
Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 091601 (2021)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0056813

Zhongwei Jin, David Janoschka, Junhong Deng, Lin Ge, Pascal Dreher, Bettina Frank, Guangwei Hu, Jincheng Ni, Yuanjie Yang, Jing Li, Changyuan Yu, Dangyuan Lei, Guixin Li, Shumin Xiao, Shengtao Mei, Harald Giessen, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Cheng-Wei Qiu
Phyllotaxis-Inspired Nanosieves with Multiplexed Orbital Angular Momentum
eLight 1, 5 (2021)
DOI: 10.1186/s43593-021-00005-9

 

2020

Timothy J. Davis, David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, Bettina Frank, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Harald Giessen
Ultrafast Vector Imaging of Plasmonic Skyrmion Dynamics with Deep Subwavelength Resolution
Science 368, 6415 (2020)
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba6415

David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, Tim Davis, Bettina Frank, Harald Gießen and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Vector Microscopy: Nonlinear Photoemission Microscopy Reveals Plasmonic Fields

 

2019

Daniel Podbiel, Philip Kahl, Bettina Frank, Timothy J. Davis, Harald Giessen, Michael Horn-von Hoegen and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of an Efficient Fresnel Grating Coupler for Focussing Surface Plasmon Polaritons
ACS Photonics 6, 600 (2019)
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01565

Ludmilla Schumacher, Jesil Jose, David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, Timothy J. Davis, Manuel Ligges, Renkai Li, Mianzhen Mo, Suji Park, Xiaozhe Shen, Stephen Weathersby, Jie Yang, Xijie Wang, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten and Sebastian Schlücker
Precision Plasmonics with Monomers and Dimers of Spherical Gold Nanoparticles: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics at the Time and Space Limit
J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 13181 (2019)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01007

Bernd Hafke, Tobias Witte, David Janoschka, Pascal Dreher, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Michael Horn-von Hoegen
Condensation of Ground State from a Supercooled Phase in the Si(111)-(4×1) → (8×2)-Indium Atomic Wire System
Struct. Dyn. 6, 045101 (2019)
DOI: 10.1063/1.5111636

 

2018

Philip Kahl, Daniel Podbiel, Christian Schneider, Andreas Makris,Simon Sindermann, Christian Witt, Deirdre Kilbane, Michael Horn-von Hoegen, Martin Aeschlimann and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Direct Observation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation and Interference by Time-Resolved Imaging in Normal-Incidence Two Photon Photoemission Microscopy
Plasmonics 13, 239 (2018)
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-017-0504-6

Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, David Janoschka and Pascal Dreher
A Space-Time Analysis of Electron Emission from a Focusing Structure for Surface Plasmon Polaritons using Photoemission Microscopy
Proc. SPIE 10530, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII, 105300C (2018)
DOI: 10.1117/12.2291912

Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Observing the Sub-Femtosecond Dynamics of Plasmonic Bragg Reflectors by Time-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy
Proc. SPIE 10530, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII, 105301A (2018)
DOI: 10.1117/12.2306180

 

2017

G. Spektor, D. Kilban, A. K. Mahro, B. Frank, S. Ristok, L. Gal, P. Kahl, D. Podbiel, S. Mathias, H. Giessen, F.-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, M. Orenstein and M. Aeschlimann
Revealing the Subfemtosecond Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum in Nanoplasmonic Vortices
Science 355, 1187 (2017)
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaj1699

Daniel Podbiel, Philip Kahl, Andreas Makris, Bettina Frank, Simon Sindermann, Timothy J. Davis, Harald Giessen, Michael Horn-von Hoegen and Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf
Imaging the Nonlinear Plasmoemission Dynamics of Electrons from Strong Plasmonic Fields
Nano Lett. 17, 6569 (2017)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02235

Timothy J. Davis, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, Bettina Frank, Philip Kahl, Harald Giessen and Daniel Podbiel
Subfemtosecond and Nanometer Plasmon Dynamics with Photoelectron Microscopy: Theory and Efficient Simulations
ACS Photonics 4, 246 (2017)
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00676

Bettina Frank, Philip Kahl, Daniel Podbiel, Grisha Spektor, Meir Orenstein, Liwei Fu, Thomas Weiss, Michael Horn-von Hoegen, Timothy J Davis, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf and Harald Giessen
Short-Range Surface Plasmonics: Localized Electron Emission Dynamics from a 60-nm Spot on an Atomically Flat Single-Crystalline Gold Surface
Science Adv. 3, e1700721 (2017)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700721

 

2016

Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, Daniel Podbiel, Nicolai Raß, Andreas Makris and Philip Kahl
Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Two Photon Photoemission Microscopy
Proc. SPIE 9921, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization and Applications XIV, 992110 (2016)
DOI: 10.1117/12.2239878