• DocumentCode
    2119271
  • Title

    Polaritonic metamaterial for super-resolution trapping and sensing

  • Author

    Terranova, Brandon ; Fontecchio, Adam

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    554
  • Lastpage
    555
  • Abstract
    Engineered polaritonic metamaterials are shown to enhance nanoparticle optical trapping and sensing ability via cylindrical channel hybrid plasmon-polariton resonances. Geometric features supporting spatially and time-varying optical potentials that define polaritonic force landscapes are investigated.
  • Keywords
    nanoparticles; nanophotonics; nanosensors; optical metamaterials; optical sensors; plasmons; polaritons; radiation pressure; cylindrical channel hybrid plasmon-polariton resonances; nanoparticle optical trapping; polaritonic force landscapes; polaritonic metamaterial; sensing devices; spatially-varying optical potentials; superresolution trapping; time-varying optical potentials; Charge carrier processes; Force; Nanobioscience; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Plasmons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656683
  • Filename
    6656683