Nanostructures for investigating gap plasmon and sensing change in refractive index
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2010-10-04T16:06:38Z
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Choudhury, Asif Imran Khan
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I have investigated gap plasmon mode of an eccentric coaxial waveguide structure
using effective index method. The results found good agreement with fully-vectorial
numerical calculation. In the eccentric structure, a strong field localization has been noticed at and around the smallest gap. Analysis showed the increase of effective
index of lowest-order waveguide mode to 3.7 in the structure considered with a 2 nm
minimum gap for a wavelength of 4 micrometer. In the visible regime, the effective index increases to over 10 for the same structure.
Nanohole arrays, both flowover and flow-through formats, have been fabricated
using focused ion beam (FIB). A 2-color LED-based nanohole sensor has been presented. The objective of the sensing platform was to register mutually opposite intensity change of transmitted light when the dielectric medium of metal-dielectric interface of the nanohole sensor undergoes a change. A number of tests with microfluidics setup demonstrated the proof-of-concept.
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nanotechnology, 2-color led sensor, effective index, eccentric structure, focused ion beam, transmission mode sensing