Optical Hydrogen Nanothermometry of Plasmonic Nanoparticles under Illumination
Journal article, 2022

The temperature of nanoparticles is a critical parameter in applications that range from biology, to sensors, to photocatalysis. Yet, accurately determining the absolute temperature of nanoparticles is intrinsically difficult because traditional temperature probes likely deliver inaccurate results due to their large thermal mass compared to the nanoparticles. Here we present a hydrogen nanothermometry method that enables a noninvasive and direct measurement of absolute Pd nanoparticle temperature via the temperature dependence of the first-order phase transformation during Pd hydride formation. We apply it to accurately measure light-absorption-induced Pd nanoparticle heating at different irradiated powers with 1 °C resolution and to unravel the impact of nanoparticle density in an array on the obtained temperature. In a wider perspective, this work reports a noninvasive method for accurate temperature measurements at the nanoscale, which we predict will find application in, for example, nano-optics, nanolithography, and plasmon-mediated catalysis to distinguish thermal from electronic effects.

nanothermometry

temperature

plasmonics

photothermal

palladium hydride

nanoparticles

sensing

Author

Christopher Tiburski

Chalmers, Physics, Chemical Physics

Ferry Nugroho

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Christoph Langhammer

Chalmers, Physics, Chemical Physics

ACS Nano

1936-0851 (ISSN) 1936-086X (eISSN)

Vol. 16 4 6233-6243

Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2016

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW2016.0210), 2017-07-01 -- 2022-06-30.

Subject Categories

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1021/acsnano.2c00035

PubMed

35343680

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