Metallic nanostructures attract much interest as an efficient media for surface‐enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). Significant progress has been made on the synthesis of metal …

A variety of configurations and formats have been devised to exploit the phenomenon of
surface plasmon on metal dielectric interfaces for sensing a variety of significant analytes …

Periodic structures of spherical silicon particles are analyzed using the coupled-dipole
equations for studying optical response features and local electromagnetic fields. The model …

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 …

The response of gold nanoparticle dimers is studied theoretically near and beyond the limit
where the particles are touching. As the particles approach each other, a dominant dipole …

Silver nanocrystals are ideal building blocks for plasmonic materials that exhibit a wide
range of unique and potentially useful optical phenomena. Individual nanocrystals display …

We demonstrate a convenient and cost-effective chemical approach for fabricating highly
ordered Au nanoparticle arrays with sub-10-nm interparticle gaps. Near-field enhancements …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was originally discovered in the 1970s [1,
2] where it was found that submonolayers of small nonresonant organic molecules, such as …

The optical properties of coupled metallic nanorods are studied to investigate the use of
coupled plasmonic structures in field-enhanced spectroscopies. Light scattering by coupled …

We investigate the optical properties of silver nanoparticles used in tandem ultrathin-film
organic photovoltaic cells. Experimental results indicate that the enhancement of an incident …