Abstract
FDTD simulations are performed on two-dimensional clusters of plasmonic metal nanoparticles in response to incident planewave irradiation. Using an iterative optimization algorithm, we determine the spatial configuration of the nanoparticles that gives the maximum electric field intensity at the center of the cluster. The optimum configurations of these clusters have mirror symmetry about the axis of planewave propagation, but are otherwise non-symmetric and non-intuitive. The optimized electric field intensity increases monotonically with the number of nanoparticles in the cluster, producing surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) enhancements that are 25 times larger than linear chains of nanoparticles and 6 million times larger than the incident electromagnetic field.
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