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 …

Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities

SV Boriskina, TA Cooper, L Zeng, G Ni… - Advances in Optics …, 2017‏ - opg.optica.org
Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivaled concentration of optical energy
well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is …

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 …

Hot-electron nanoscopy using adiabatic compression of surface plasmons

A Giugni, B Torre, A Toma, M Francardi… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
Surface plasmon polaritons are a central concept in nanoplasmonics and have been
exploited to develop ultrasensitive chemical detection platforms, as well as imaging and …