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Boroviks S, Yezekyan T, Rodríguez Echarri Á, García de Abajo FJ, Cox JD, Bozhevolnyi SI, Mortensen NA, Wolff C. Anisotropic second-harmonic generation from monocrystalline gold flakes. OPTICS LETTERS 2021; 46:833-836. [PMID: 33577523 DOI: 10.1364/ol.413003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Noble metals with well-defined crystallographic orientation constitute an appealing class of materials for controlling light-matter interactions on the nanoscale. Nonlinear optical processes, being particularly sensitive to anisotropy, are a natural and versatile probe of crystallinity in nano-optical devices. Here we study the nonlinear optical response of monocrystalline gold flakes, revealing a polarization dependence in second-harmonic generation from the {111} surface that is markedly absent in polycrystalline films. Our findings confirm that second-harmonic microscopy is a robust and non-destructive method for probing the crystallographic orientation of gold, and can serve as a guideline for enhancing nonlinear response in plasmonic systems.
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Nahalka I, Zwaschka G, Campen RK, Marchioro A, Roke S. Mapping Electrochemical Heterogeneity at Gold Surfaces: A Second Harmonic Imaging Study. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2020; 124:20021-20034. [PMID: 35693431 PMCID: PMC9182208 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Designing efficient catalysts requires correlating surface structure and local chemical composition with reactivity on length scales from nanometers to tens of microns. While much work has been done on this structure/function correlation on single crystals, comparatively little has been done for catalysts of relevance in applications. Such materials are typically highly heterogeneous and thus require methods that allow mapping of the structure/function relationship during electrochemical conversion. Here, we use optical second harmonic imaging combined with cyclic voltammetry to map the surface of gold nanocrystalline and polycrystalline electrodes during electrooxidation and to quantify the spatial extent of surface reconstruction during potential cycling. The wide-field configuration of our microscope allows for real-time imaging of an area ∼100 μm in diameter with submicron resolution. By analyzing the voltage dependence of each pixel, we uncover the heterogeneity of the second harmonic signal and quantify the fraction of domains where it follows a positive quadratic dependence with increasing bias. There, the second harmonic intensity is mainly ascribed to electronic polarization contributions at the metal/electrolyte interface. Additionally, we locate areas where the second harmonic signal follows a negative quadratic dependence with increasing bias, which also show the largest changes during successive cyclic voltammetry sweeps as determined by an additional correlation coefficient analysis. We assign these areas to domains of higher roughness that are prone to potential-induced surface restructuring and where anion adsorption occurs at lower potentials than expected based on the cyclic voltammetry.
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- Igor Nahalka
- Laboratory
for fundamental BioPhotonics (LBP), Institute of Bio-engineering (IBI),
and Institute of Materials Science (IMX), School of Engineering (STI),
and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Faculty
of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
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- Laboratory
for fundamental BioPhotonics (LBP), Institute of Bio-engineering (IBI),
and Institute of Materials Science (IMX), School of Engineering (STI),
and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for fundamental BioPhotonics (LBP), Institute of Bio-engineering (IBI),
and Institute of Materials Science (IMX), School of Engineering (STI),
and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Pettinger B, Mirwald S, Lipkowski J. In-situ SHG Studies of Ionic and Molecular Adsorption on Surface Structure of Au(111)-Electrodes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/bbpc.19930970325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Second Harmonic Generation as an In‐situ Probe of Single Crystal Electrode Surfaces. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/9783527616763.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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He Y, Borguet E. Effect of local environment on nanoscale dynamics at electrochemical interfaces: anisotropic growth and dissolution in the presence of a step providing evidence for a schwoebel-ehrlich barrier at solid/liquid interfaces. Faraday Discuss 2002:17-25, discussion 97-127. [PMID: 12227568 DOI: 10.1039/b110802f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The dynamics of nanoscale islands in the vicinity of a monoatomic step on a metal electrode surface under potential control have been investigated by potential pulse perturbation time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy (P3 TR-STM). As the metastable islands decay, a clear anisotropy develops in the spatial distribution of islands, relative to the monoatomic step. Islands appear to be stabilized above the step, while a denuded region develops below the step over a distance of about 100 nm. Vacancy islands are observed to be more stable than adatom islands. These results provide evidence for an electrochemical Schwoebel-Ehrlich barrier to diffusion of atoms across the step.
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- Yufan He
- Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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He Y, Borguet E. Dynamics of Metastable Nanoscale Island Growth and Dissolution at Electrochemical Interfaces by Time-Resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. J Phys Chem B 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0040648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Y. He
- Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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- Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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Kauranen M, Van Elshocht S, Verbiest T, Persoons A. Tensor analysis of the second-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of chiral anisotropic thin films. J Chem Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1063/1.480716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Wang J, Adžić R. Surface reconstruction at metal|solid polymer electrolyte interfaces: Au(111)|Nafion® interface. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0728(97)00033-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Yagi I, Nakabayashi S, Uosaki K. In Situ Optical Second Harmonic Rotational Anisotropy Measurements of an Au(111) Electrode during Electrochemical Deposition of Tellurium. J Phys Chem B 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jp972763n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ichizo Yagi
- Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
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- Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
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- Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
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Eberhardt D, Santos E, Schmickler W. Impedance studies of reconstructed and non-reconstructed gold single crystal surfaces. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0728(96)04872-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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McGilp JF, Power JR, O'Mahony JD, Chandola S. Resonant optical second harmonic generation from vicinal Si(001)Sb, and its microscopic origin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1002/pssa.2211520123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Power JR, O'Mahony JD, Chandola S, McGilp JF. Resonant optical second harmonic generation at the steps of vicinal Si(001). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 1995; 75:1138-1141. [PMID: 10060215 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.75.1138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Yeganeh MS, Dougal SM, Polizzotti RS, Rabinowitz P. Interfacial atomic structure of a self-assembled alkyl thiol monolayer/Au(111): A sum-frequency generation study. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 1995; 74:1811-1814. [PMID: 10057763 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.74.1811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Pettinger B, Lipkowski J, Mirwald S. In situ SHG studies of adsorption induced surface reconstruction of Au(111)-electrodes. Electrochim Acta 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0013-4686(94)00247-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yamada C, Kimura T. Rotational symmetry of the surface second-harmonic generation of zinc-blende-type crystals. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1994; 49:14372-14381. [PMID: 10010518 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.49.14372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Friedrich K, Richmond G. Surface second harmonic generation studies of stepped Ag (111) electrode surfaces. Chem Phys Lett 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)89147-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Lüpke G, Bottomley DJ. SiO2/Si interfacial structure on vicinal Si(100) studied with second-harmonic generation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1993; 47:10389-10394. [PMID: 10005148 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.47.10389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Janz S, Lüpke G. Phase diagram of vicinal Cu(111) surfaces as determined by second-harmonic generation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1993; 47:7494-7500. [PMID: 10004743 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.47.7494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Koopmans B, Sawatzky GA. Surface symmetry resolution of nonlinear optical techniques. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1992; 46:12780-12783. [PMID: 10003206 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.46.12780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Wang J, Ocko BM, Davenport AJ, Isaacs HS. In situ x-ray-diffraction and -reflectivity studies of the Au(111)/electrolyte interface: Reconstruction and anion adsorption. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1992; 46:10321-10338. [PMID: 10002877 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.46.10321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Pettinger B, Lipkowski J, Mirwald S, Friedrich A. Specific adsorption at Au(111) electrodes studied by second harmonic generation. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(92)80223-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lynch ML, Corn RM. Surface phase transition of ordered iodine monolayers on a Pt(111) electrode as studied by normal incidence optical second harmonic generation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(91)85319-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Stolberg L, Morin S, Lipkowski J, Irish D. Adsorption of pyridine at the Au(111)-solution interface. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(91)85552-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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