Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Plasmonic crystals fabricated with precisely controlled arrays of subwavelength metal nanostructures provide a promising platform for sensing and imaging of surface binding events with micrometer spatial resolution over large areas. Soft nanoimprint lithography provides a robust, cost-effective method for producing highly uniform plasmonic crystals of this type with predictable optical properties. The tunable multimode plasmonic resonances of these crystals and their ability for integration into lab-on-a-chip microfluidic systems can both be harnessed to achieve exceptionally high analytical sensitivities down to submonolayer levels using even a common optical microscope, circumventing numerous technical limitations of more conventional surface plasmon resonance techniques. In this article, we highlight some recent advances in this field with an emphasis on the fabrication and characterization of these integrated devices and their demonstrated applications.
Source: Advanced Materials
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G102163711, G1286251239, G162395693, G222768804, G2287611682, G262962599, G3589692066, PROGRAMMING FUNCTION VIA SOFT MATERIALS, G426311843, G498139845, G5387317844, G5648016710, G6848031779, G6918803902, G7583137537, PROGRAMMING FUNCTION VIA SOFT MATERIALS, PROGRAMMING FUNCTION VIA SOFT MATERIALS, G969889393, G993149817
OpenAlex ID: W2077435575