Trapping and sensing 10 nm metal nanoparticles using plasmonic dipole antennas

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1006-1011

  Zhang, Weihua ^a   Huang, Lina ^a   Santschi, Christian ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmon resonance; Nanosensors; Optical trapping; Plasmonic dipole antennas

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; AU NANOPARTICLE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HOT SPOT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICALTRAPPING; REAL TIME; SENSING TECHNIQUES; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSENSORS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77949473960     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl904168f     Document Type: Article

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