Strong coupling with absorption and emission features of Ag@Au hollow nanoshells interacting with J-aggregated dye molecules

We investigate the strong coupling from 5,5’,6,6’-tetrachloro-1,1’-diethyl-3,3’-di(4-sulfobutyl)-benzimidazolocarbocyanine (TDBC) molecules near pure nano-triangular Ag prisms or Ag@Au hollow nanoshells. When TDBC molecules are deposited on pure Ag nanoprisms or Ag@Au hollow nanoshells with the plasmonic resonance peak, matching very closely with the absorption band of TDBC J-aggregates, obvious Rabi splitting can be observed due to the strong coupling regime. Meanwhile, the photoluminescence intensity decreased with the increasing of the temperature, verifying the decreasing plasmon–exciton coupling interaction in the higher temperature. Our experimental results are coincident with the simulation results calculated by finite-difference time-domain method.