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 …

[HTML][HTML] Review of plasmonic nanocomposite metamaterial absorber

MK Hedayati, F Faupel, M Elbahri - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Plasmonic metamaterials are artificial materials typically composed of noble metals in which
the features of photonics and electronics are linked by coupling photons to conduction …

Distance-dependent plasmon resonant coupling between a gold nanoparticle and gold film

JJ Mock, RT Hill, A Degiron, S Zauscher, A Chilkoti… - Nano …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We present an experimental analysis of the plasmonic scattering properties of gold
nanoparticles controllably placed nanometers away from a gold metal film. We show that the …

Manipulation of the dephasing time by strong coupling between localized and propagating surface plasmon modes

J Yang, Q Sun, K Ueno, X Shi, T Oshikiri… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Strong coupling between two resonance modes leads to the formation of new hybrid modes
exhibiting disparate characteristics owing to the reversible exchange of information between …

Double-resonance plasmon substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering with enhancement at excitation and stokes frequencies

Y Chu, MG Banaee, KB Crozier - ACS nano, 2010 - ACS Publications
We report a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate with plasmon
resonances at both excitation and Stokes frequencies. This multilayer structure combines …

Experimental study of the interaction between localized and propagating surface plasmons

Y Chu, KB Crozier - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The interaction between localized and propagating surface plasmons is investigated in a
structure consisting of a two-dimensional periodic gold nanoparticle array, an Si O 2 spacer …

Revealing plasmonic gap modes in particle-on-film systems using dark-field spectroscopy

DY Lei, AI Fernández-Domínguez, Y Sonnefraud… - Acs Nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
Polarization-controlled excitation of plasmonic modes in nanometric Au particle-on-film gaps
is investigated experimentally using single-particle dark-field spectroscopy. Two distinct …

Probing dynamically tunable localized surface plasmon resonances of film-coupled nanoparticles by evanescent wave excitation

JJ Mock, RT Hill, YJ Tsai, A Chilkoti, DR Smith - Nano Letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectrum associated with a gold
nanoparticle (NP) coupled to a gold film exhibits extreme sensitivity to the nanogap region …

Optimizing plasmonic nanoantennas via coordinated multiple coupling

L Lin, Y Zheng - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Plasmonic nanoantennas, which can efficiently convert light from free space into sub-
wavelength scale with the local field enhancement, are fundamental building blocks for …

Optical properties of a nanosized hole in a thin metallic film

TH Park, N Mirin, JB Lassiter, CL Nehl, NJ Halas… - Acs Nano, 2008 - ACS Publications
Subwavelength holes are one of the most important structures in nanophotonics, providing a
useful geometry for nanosensing and giving rise to extraordinary transmission when …