posted on 2021-02-16, 19:04authored byLi Wang, Shohei Takeda, Ryota Sato, Masanori Sakamoto, Toshiharu Teranishi, Naoto Tamai
Coherent acoustic
phonon vibrations of Au nanopolyhedrons, including
nanocubes, nano-octahedrons, and nanocuboctahedrons, in aqueous solutions
and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) films, were investigated using transient
absorption (TA) spectroscopy combined with finite element analysis
based on continuum elastic theory. In each type of nanopolyhedron,
two vibrational modes with similar quality factors (Qs) and phases
were observed, suggesting that both were induced by thermal expansion.
The low-frequency vibrational mode represents a tip-to-tip displacement
in each nanopolyhedron, whereas the high-frequency mode is the breathing
vibration of the whole particle and reveals morphology dependence,
displaying a face-to-face displacement in nanocuboctahedrons, an edge-to-edge
displacement in nano-octahedrons, and a combination of face-to-face
and edge-to-edge displacements in nanocubes. Moreover, a clear phonon
beat was identified in the two vibrational modes of the nanocuboctahedrons.
Our experimental results provide a possible application of morphology-controllable
metal nanoresonators.