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Plasmonic nanoantenna arrays : optical properties and their applications in biosensing
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dodson, Stephanie L. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | ............................................................................................................................................... V TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................... VII TABLE OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................. IX 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 MOTIVATION ................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 PLASMONICS .................................................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE ........................................................................................... 6 1.4 NEAR-‐FIELD IMAGING ................................................................................................................................. 8 1.5 SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING ........................................................................................... 11 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THIS THESIS .............................................................................................................. 14 2 CHAPTER 2: SIMULATION ......................................................................................................... 16 2.1 COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF NANOPARTICLE SCATTERING ......................................................... 16 2.1.1 Discrete Dipole Approximation ................................................................................................... 16 2.1.2 Effective Medium Theory ............................................................................................................... 18 2.2 SIMULATION PARAMETER TESTING ....................................................................................................... 19 2.2.1 Effect of Grid Spacing ...................................................................................................................... 19 2.2.2 Substrate Effect Test ........................................................................................................................ 22 2.2.3 Effective Medium Test ..................................................................................................................... 23 2.3 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 24 3 CHAPTER 3: FABRICATION ...................................................................................................... 26 3.1 NANOFABRICATION ................................................................................................................................... 26 3.2 ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS ........................................................................................... 30 3.2.1 Electron beam lithography ........................................................................................................... 31 3.2.2 Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging .................................................................................. 31 3.2.3 Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging ............................................................................................ 32 3.3 ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY PARAMETER TESTING ................................................................... 32 3.4 ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY RECIPE .............................................................................................. 35 4 CHAPTER 4: NANOROD ARRAYS ............................................................................................. 37 1.1 LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSING ...................................................................... 37 4.1 NANOROD ARRAY DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND TESTING PARAMETERS ........................................ 39 4.2 RESULTS ...................................................................................................................................................... 42 4.2.1 Simulated Effect of Geometry on Single Nanorods ............................................................. 43 |
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| DOI | 10.32657/10356/61650 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.32657/10356%2F61650 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
