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Nature Photonics 1, 641 - 648 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.223

Subject Categories: Plasmonics | Imaging and sensing

Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding

Surbhi Lal1,3, Stephan Link2,3 & Naomi J. Halas1,2,3


The design and realization of metallic nanostructures with tunable plasmon resonances has been greatly advanced by combining a wealth of nanofabrication techniques with advances in computational electromagnetic design. Plasmonics — a rapidly emerging subdiscipline of nanophotonics — is aimed at exploiting both localized and propagating surface plasmons for technologically important applications, specifically in sensing and waveguiding. Here we present a brief overview of this rapidly growing research field.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
  2. Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
  3. Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA

Correspondence to: Naomi J. Halas1,2,3 e-mail: halas@rice.edu



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