Novel plasmonic nanocavities for optical trapping‐assisted biosensing applications

AN Koya, J Cunha, TL Guo, A Toma… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic nanocavities have proved to confine electromagnetic fields into deep
subwavelength volumes, implying their potentials for enhanced optical trapping and sensing …

Plasmonics for biosensing

X Han, K Liu, C Sun - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Techniques based on plasmonic resonance can provide label-free, signal enhanced, and
real-time sensing means for bioparticles and bioprocesses at the molecular level. With the …

Label-free optical detection of DNA translocations through plasmonic nanopores

DV Verschueren, S Pud, X Shi, L De Angelis… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Solid-state nanopores are single-molecule sensors that hold great potential for rapid protein
and nucleic-acid analysis. Despite their many opportunities, the conventional ionic current …

Plasmonic mid-infrared filter array-detector array chemical classifier based on machine learning

J Meng, JJ Cadusch, KB Crozier - ACS Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Numerous applications exist for chemical detection, ranging from the industrial production of
chemicals to pharmaceutical manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and hazardous risk …

Biosensing with nanoaperture optical tweezers

R Gordon - Optics & Laser Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoaperture optical tweezers extend the range of optical tweezers to dielectric particles
below 50 nm in size. This allows for optical trapping of proteins, DNA fragments and other …

Compact chemical identifier based on plasmonic metasurface integrated with microbolometer array

J Meng, L Weston, S Balendhran, D Wen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of chemicals from their mid‐infrared spectra has applications that include
industrial production of chemicals, food production, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and …

Algorithm‐designed plasmonic nanotweezers: quantitative comparison by theory, cathodoluminescence, and nanoparticle trapping

N Li, J Cadusch, A Liu, AJ Barlow… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic apertures permit optical fields to be concentrated into sub‐wavelength regions.
This enhances the optical gradient force, enabling the precise trapping of nanomaterials …

Improvement of sensing and trapping efficiency of double nanohole apertures via enhancing the wedge plasmon polariton modes with tapered cusps

M Ghorbanzadeh, S Jones, MK Moravvej-Farshi… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In the past few years, double nanohole (DNH) apertures in a gold film have been used
extensively to trap and sense biological and artificial dielectric nanoparticles. Using …

Optics and spectroscopy of a single plasmonic nanostructure

VI Balykin, PN Melentiev - Physics-Uspekhi, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the interaction of laser light with a single plasmonic nanostructure. Until recently,
the extremely weak optical response of a single nanostructure had only allowed …

Plasmonic nano-optical trap stiffness measurements and design optimization

Q Jiang, JB Claude, J Wenger - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Plasmonic nano-optical tweezers enable the non-invasive manipulation of nano-objects
under low illumination intensities, and have become a powerful tool for nanotechnology and …