Localised surface plasmon resonance inducing cooperative Jahn–Teller effect for crystal phase-change in a nanocrystal

Masanori Sakamoto (), Masaki Hada (), Wataru Ota, Fumihiko Uesugi and Tohru Sato
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Masanori Sakamoto: Kyoto University
Masaki Hada: University of Tsukuba
Wataru Ota: Kyoto University
Fumihiko Uesugi: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Tohru Sato: Kyoto University

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract The Jahn–Teller effect, a phase transition phenomenon involving the spontaneous breakdown of symmetry in molecules and crystals, causes important physical and chemical changes that affect various fields of science. In this study, we discovered that localised surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) induced the cooperative Jahn–Teller effect in covellite CuS nanocrystals (NCs), causing metastable displacive ion movements. Electron diffraction measurements under photo illumination, ultrafast time-resolved electron diffraction analyses, and theoretical calculations of semiconductive plasmonic CuS NCs showed that metastable displacive ion movements due to the LSPR-induced cooperative Jahn–Teller effect delayed the relaxation of LSPR in the microsecond region. Furthermore, the displacive ion movements caused photo-switching of the conductivity in CuS NC films at room temperature (22 °C), such as in transparent variable resistance infrared sensors. This study pushes the limits of plasmonics from tentative control of collective oscillation to metastable crystal structure manipulation.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40153-9

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