Unveiling the correlation between nanometer-thick molecular monolayer sensitivity and near-field enhancement and localization in coupled plasmonic oligomers

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 9188-9198

  König, Matthias ^a,b   Rahmani, Mohsen ^a   Zhang, Lei ^c   Lei, Dang Yuan ^d   Roschuk, Tyler R ^a   Giannini, Vincenzo ^a   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^c,e   Hong, Minghui ^c   Schlücker, Sebastian ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e Shenzhen University   (China)

Author keywords

Fano resonance; monolayer sensing; near field enhancement; plasmonic oligomers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCLUSTERS; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMONICS; RESONANCE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ALKANETHIOL MONOLAYERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS; FANO RESONANCES; NANOPARTICLE GEOMETRIES; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONIC OLIGOMERS; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84922767781     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5028714     Document Type: Article

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