Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Nanoplasmonics: past, present, and glimpse into future

MI Stockman - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
A review of nanoplasmonics is given. This includes fundamentals, nanolocalization of
optical energy and hot spots, ultrafast nanoplasmonics and control of the spatiotemporal …

Breaking the diffusion limit with super-hydrophobic delivery of molecules to plasmonic nanofocusing SERS structures

F De Angelis, F Gentile, F Mecarini, G Das, M Moretti… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
The detection of a few molecules in a highly diluted solution is of paramount interest in fields
including biomedicine, safety and eco-pollution in relation to rare and dangerous chemicals …

Nanofocusing of electromagnetic radiation

DK Gramotnev, SI Bozhevolnyi - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Nanofocusing of electromagnetic radiation, that is, reducing the cross sections of
propagating optical modes far beyond the diffraction limit in dielectric media, can be …

Zeptomol detection through controlled ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering

L Rodríguez-Lorenzo, RA Álvarez-Puebla… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
SERS permits identifying the nature of molecules in extremely low concentrations, but it is
hindered by poor enhancement or low reproducibility. We demonstrate controllable∼ 1010 …

Nanoscale chemical map** using three-dimensional adiabatic compression of surface plasmon polaritons

F De Angelis, G Das, P Candeloro, M Patrini… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The fields of plasmonics, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy have recently
undergone considerable development, but independently of one another. By combining …