A metal film coupled with a metal nanoparticle is a simple and stable nanoantenna structure with plasmonic
characteristics. This film-coupled nanoparticle system also has potential for the signal enhancement due to the highly
confined field between the film and the nanoparticle. Recently, this structure has been used to probe the limit of the
enhanced field and the interaction with quantum emitters. The well-known mode in this nanoantenna structures is the gap
dipole mode. However, the high order modes become significant when the gap between the nanoparticle and the film is
reduced. In this work, the high order modes are investigated. The size of the whole nanoantenna structure is around λ/10.
In experiments, the far field scattering spectra/images under different excitation and collection conditions indicate the
influence and the existence of the high order modes. The calculated far-field scattering spectra and spatial intensity
profiles have good agreement with the experimental results. In addition, among these high order modes, the simulated
near-field distributions reveal distinguishable features which include the different symmetry of field distributions and the
various size of confined field. The investigation of these high order modes may provide the information for designing the
interaction between this nanoantenna structure and other plasmonic devices.
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