Appendix D presents supporting material for Chapter 2, “Nanoscale Phenomena Underpinning Nanophotonics.” Not intended to be exhaustive, this appendix describes a representative sampling of research efforts in 10 areas of plasmonics. In addition, it provides an approximate scale of international research in these specific scientific areas. Reference is made to Appendix D within subsections of the major sections entitled “Plasmonics,” “Emerging Topics of Phonon Polaritons,” and “Terahertz Waveguides” in Chapter 2.
Presented in the same order as their corresponding subsections in Chapter 2, following are the 10 areas of plasmonics research addressed below:
Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing,
Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy,
Techniques for Imaging and Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Structures,
Extraordinary Transmission, Subwavelength Holes,
Plasmonic Waveguides and Other Electromagnetic Transport Geometries,
Plasmon-Based Active Devices,
Plasmon-Enhanced Devices,
Plasmonics in Biotechnology and Biomedicine,
Phonon Polaritons, and
Emerging Topics in Plasmonics.
The research groups within each area listed above are alphabetized by the last name of the group’s leader.
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Appendix D
Selected Research Groups In Plasmonics
INTRODuCTION
Appendix D presents supporting material for Chapter 2, “Nanoscale Phenomena Underpinning
Nanophotonics.” Not intended to be exhaustive, this appendix describes a representative sampling of
research efforts in 10 areas of plasmonics. In addition, it provides an approximate scale of international
research in these specific scientific areas. Reference is made to Appendix D within subsections of the
major sections entitled “Plasmonics,” “Emerging Topics of Phonon Polaritons,” and “Terahertz Wave-
guides” in Chapter 2.
Presented in the same order as their corresponding subsections in Chapter 2, following are the
10 areas of plasmonics research addressed below:
• Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing,
• Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy,
• Techniques for Imaging and Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Structures,
• Extraordinary Transmission, Subwavelength Holes,
• Plasmonic Waveguides and Other Electromagnetic Transport Geometries,
• Plasmon-Based Active Devices,
• Plasmon-Enhanced Devices,
• Plasmonics in Biotechnology and Biomedicine,
• Phonon Polaritons, and
• Emerging Topics in Plasmonics.
The research groups within each area listed above are alphabetized by the last name of the group’s
leader.
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LOCALIzED SuRFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSING:
SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Jason h. hafner, Rice University, houston, Texas—Gold nanostars are asymmetric nanoparticles
that show polarization-dependent scattering spectrum. This has been demonstrated to show large
surface plasmon resonance (SPR) shifts in single-particle scattering measurements. Dr. Hafner’s
group is currently pursuing single-particle, single-binding-event sensing using nanostars (Nehl
et al., 2004).
• Naomi J. halas, Rice University, houston, Texas—Dr. Halas’s group has developed a variety of
nanoparticles that exhibit large SPR sensitivities. These include silica core gold nanoshells and
“nanorice” particles (Tam et al., 2004; Wang and Mittleman, 2006).
• Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden—LSPR sensing of single
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holes in gold films and the ensemble measurements have been used to demonstrate the LSPR
sensitivity by functionalizing with alkanethiols of different lengths. Other geometries made by
electron-beam lithography have also been developed. The group at Chalmers University has also
developed techniques to study surface modifications in the lipid layer and other chemical changes
that occur at the hole sites on lipid layers supported on gold films with nanometer-size holes
(Rindzevicius et al., 2005).
• Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—Dr. Kotov developed a layer-by-layer assem-
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bly technique to fabricate thin films of mixed anisotropic nanoparticles and controlled surface
plasmon absorption.
• J.R. Sambles, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom—Dr. Sambles’s group has developed
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an acoustooptical tunable filter to enhance the SPR sensitivity of gold films used to detect NO
gas close to the surface, the binding of biological molecules in solution, and the electrochemical
modifications in the films as different molecules attach to the surface (Jory et al., 1995).
• Jennifer Shumaker-parry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah—Dr. Shumaker-Parry’s group
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has developed SPR microscopy as a technique for array-based molecular recognition studies. SPR
microscopy using an asymmetric particles array (crescent-shaped particles) provides a label-free
method for high-throughput, quantitative, real-time kinetic studies of biomolecule interactions
(e.g., protein-DNA, protein-protein, protein-vesicle) (Shumaker-Parry et al., 2005).
• Richard p. Van Duyne, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois—Dr. Van Duyne’s group has
used nanosphere lithography silver triangles as localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)
sensors to study chemical binding and unbinding events. Both ensemble measurements of silver
triangle arrays and single-particle measurements have been used to study LSPR shifts that are
due to molecules binding to the surface (Malinsky et al., 2001; McFarland and Van Duyne, 2003).
This group has also used LSPR sensing to detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease.
• Younan Xia, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington—Dr. Xia’s group has developed
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hollow gold nanoshells, and nanocube particles that show high LSPR sensitivity. Ensemble
measurements on the nanoshells and single-particle measurements on the nanocubes have been
performed (Sherry et al., 2005; Sun and Xia, 2002).
SuRFACE-ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Louis Brus, Columbia University, New York, New York—Dr. Brus’s group is involved in studies
relating to the origin of large enhancement factors in SERS from silver colloid particles (Michaels
et al., 2000). The group is also investigating the chemical effect in the SERS enhancement.
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• peter Griffiths, University of Idaho, Moscow—Dr. Griffith’s group has developed techniques to
use surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRA) to increase the sensitivity at
which the molecules eluting from a gas chromatograph (GC) can be identified. This instrument
has better sensitivity than a traditional GC/mass spectrometer (Bjerke et al., 1999). The group
has also developed instrumentation to study SEIRA of the atmosphere to identify pollutants in
the environment and gases formed in compost piles on dairy farms.
• Naomi J. halas, Rice University, houston, Texas—Dr. Halas’s group has developed gold and
silver nanoshell-based substrates for SES and explored many of the basic physics origins of SERS
and SEF (Tam et al., 2007). The group has also developed a nanoscale pH sensor based on SERS
of molecules adsorbed on nanoshells (Bishnoi et al., 2006).
• Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden—Dr. Käll’s group has been
involved with surface-enhanced Raman and surface enhanced fluorescence (SEF) on nanoparticle
substrates as well as nanometer-sized holes in metallic films. The group has developed both experi-
mental techniques for exploring plasmons in various nanostructures and theoretical background
for SERS and SEF (Xu et al., 2004).
• Satoshi Kawata, Osaka University, Osaka and Riken, Tokyo, Japan—Dr. Kawata’s research group
looks at various enhanced nonlinear spectroscopic techniques using a metallized tip to enhance
the signal of the same, and to minimize the volume of the sample that is probed. The group has
developed techniques for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and tip-enhanced coherent Raman
spectroscopy, a nonlinear Raman scattering technique that utilizes two lasers to overpopulate the
excited state of the system. These techniques are then used to image biological molecules, such
as adenine, and other biological systems (Ichimura et al., 2004).
• Katrin Kneipp, Wellman Center for photomedicine, harvard University, Medical School, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology—Dr. Kneipp is one of the pioneers of single-molecule detection
using SERS (Kneipp et al., 1997). Currently she is investigating SERS and surface-enhanced
Raman optical activity in vivo for molecular and chemical probing of cell and biological structures
and biomedically relevant molecules (Kneipp et al., 2006a).
• Joseph R. Lakowicz and Chris D. Geddes, University of Maryland, Baltimore—Dr. Lakowicz is
the director for the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy. He has been involved with numerous
techniques in advanced fluorescence spectroscopy, including surface-enhanced fluorescence,
surface-enhanced multiphoton fluorescence spectroscopy, and so on. He is also the author of a
number of review articles and books on fluorescence spectroscopy, including principles of Fluo-
rescence Spectroscopy.
• Martin Moskovits, University of California at Santa Barbara—Dr. Moskovits has been involved
in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and the development of different nanostructures for
SES (Moskovits, 1985).
• Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester, Institute of Optics, Rochester, New York—This group has
been involved in the development of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy as an imaging technique.
Dr. Novotny’s group developed a tip-enhanced Raman scattering microscope for the chemically
specific imaging of surfaces. This technique is being applied for the study of carbon nanotubes,
stress analysis in semiconductors, and membrane proteins. Currently the group is also utilizing
this for tip-enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy. The group has demonstrated single-molecule
fluorescence and the distance-dependent fluorescence profile as a gold or silver tip is moved
closer to a fluorescent dye molecule on a surface (Anger et al., 2006). The Novotny group is also
involved in surface-enhanced sum frequency generation using clusters of gold nanoparticles as
substrates (Danckwerts and Novotny, 2007).
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• Masatoshi Osawa, hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan—Dr. Osawa is one of the pioneers of
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SEIRA. His group studies SERS and SEIRA in ATR geometry of chemical reactions and confir-
mation of proteins in solution electrochemically. He is the author of a number of review articles
on SERS and SEIRA (Osawa, 2001).
• Bruno pettinger, Fritz-haber-Institut der Max-planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany—This
group’s research is on the mechanism of SERS on gold and platinum surfaces. In addition, the
group has developed techniques for TERS in the junctions formed between silver and gold scan-
ning tunneling microscope tips with dye molecules adsorbed on smooth metal surfaces (Pettinger,
2006b, 2006a).
• Annemarie pucci, University of heidelberg, Germany—Dr. Pucci’s group has been involved in
SEIRA using different nanoparticle geometries for a long time (Enders and Pucci, 2006).
• Vahid Sandoghdar, ETh, Zurich, Switzerland—Dr. Sandoghdar’s group has combined far-field
fluorescence microscopy with scanning probe machinery to localize single molecules in a sample
to a very small fraction of the wavelength of light. Using a single colloid attached to a scanning
near-field optical microscopy tip, the group has studied single-molecule fluorescence. (Kuhn et
al., 2006)..
• Vladimir M. Shalaev, purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana—Dr. Shalaev developed semi-
continuous silver films as SERS substrates (Genov et al., 2004). Currently developing a SERS-
based sensor to examine differences in Raman spectra of two insulin isomers, human insulin and
its analog insulin lispro, which differ only in the interchange of two neighboring amino acids
(Drachev et al., 2004).
• Richard p. Van Duyne, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois—Dr. Van Duyne is one of the
pioneers in the field of SERS. From studying the basic physics behind SERS, and development
of optimal SERS substrates, Dr. Van Duyne’s group is now actively involved in applications of
SERS for biomedical sensing. These range from in vivo optical glucose sensors to the sensing of
bioterrorism agents.
• Renato Zenobi, ETh Swiss Federal Institute, Zürich, Switzerland—The Zenobi group is actively
involved in the fabrication and design of various TERS probes based on atomic force microscopy
(AFM) tips. This group combines a laser scanning confocal microscope and an AFM capable of
.
both tip and sample scan modes. This capability provides highly localized enhancements when
the tip is present and offers more uniform enhancement when scanning over the sample (Vannier
et al., 2006).
TECHNIQuES FOR IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF PLASMONIC STRuCTuRES:
SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Franz R. Aussenegg, Joachim R. Krenn, and Alfred Leitner, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz,
Austria—This group has extensively applied photon scanning tunneling microscopy (PSTM) and
leakage-radiation microscopy to study the propagation of surface plasmons in metallic strip and
particle array waveguides, and has applied passive devices such as Bragg reflectors, beam splitters,
and plasmon corrals. In addition, this group has applied other techniques such as surface-enhanced
Raman scattering to image the fields around plasmonic devices and dark-field microspectroscopy
to study the resonant modes of nanowire waveguides.
• Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark—This group has applied collec-
tion mode near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) to studying the propagation of surface
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plasmons in particle-based and channel-based waveguides, including measuring the performance
of passive devices such as Mach-Zehnder interferometers and waveguide-ring resonators.
• Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, Stanford, California—The Brongersma group is an
engineering group focusing on the development of methods to guide and manipulate light using
plasmonic nanostructures. To this end, the group extensively employs photon tunneling scan-
ning microscopy utilizing microfabricated NSOM probes to measure the properties of plasmonic
devices.
• Jochen Feldmann and Thomas Klar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich,
Germany—This group has pioneered the use of dark-field microspectroscopy to study the scatter-
ing properties of individual metallic nanoparticles and the application of this technique to single-
particle surface plasmon resonance sensing of biomolecules. In addition, this group has studied
enhanced photoluminescence from gold nanoparticles utilizing excitation with an ultrafast laser.
• Reinhard Guckenberger, Fritz Keilmann, and Rainer hillenbrand, Max-planck-Institut für Biochemie
Abteilung Molekulare Strukturbiologie, Martinsried, Germany—This group has worked extensively
on extending ANSOM into the infrared spectral region. In addition to looking at surface plasmon
polartions in particles, the group has studied the closely related phenomenon of surface phonon
polaritons on SiC in the infrared (IR). Recently the group developed a technique based on pseudo-
heterodyne detection to eliminate the background in ANSOM images, which, unlike previous
techniques, is suitable for use over broad wavelength ranges spanning the near-ultraviolet to far-IR
spectral ranges (Ocelic et al., 2006). This group has been working on techniques for ANSOM in the
IR and is studying surface photon polaritions on SiC in addition to surface plasmon polaritons.
• Victor I. Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico—While primarily
focused on quantum dots, Dr. Klimov’s group has made important contiburtions to the study of
plasmons in metallic nanoparticles by pioneering the use of femtosecond white-light continuum
radiation for linear spectroscopy of single gold nanoparticles with an illumination-mode NSOM
(Mikhailovsky et al., 2004).
• Brahim Lounis, Centre de physique Moleculaire Optique et hertzienner, Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)—Université Bordeaux , Cedex, France—Dr. Lounis’s group has
led the development of photothermal heterodyne to measure the absorption spectrum of small gold
colloid plasmons. This group is focused on applying this technique to develop contrast agents for
microscopy of the dynamics in biologically relevant systems.
• Alfred Meixner, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany—Dr. Meixner’s group
has developed a method for determining the orientation of nonsymmetric nanoparticles on a sur-
face using far-field confocal microscopy with higher-order Guassian beams (doughnut mode). This
is of importance, as previously either electron microscopy or topographic imaging with an AFM
or NSOM tip was required to determine unambiguously the orientation of particles significantly
smaller than the diffraction limit.
• hrvoje petek, University of pittsburgh, pittsburgh, pennsylvania—Dr. Petek’s group has been
studying the dynamics of materials using a frequency-doubled 10 femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser
and two-photon time-resolved photoelectron emission spectroscopy and imaging. The group
recently applied this technique to two-photon photoelectron emission imaging of surface plasmon
polariton propagation, obtaining the currently highest simultaneous temporal and spatial image
of surface plasmon polariton wave-packet propagation.
• Albert polman, FOM [Fundamental Research on Matter] Institute for Atomic and Molecular
physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam, The Netherlands—This group has developed techniques for
measuring the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal film structures by
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cathodoluminescence (van Wijngaarden et al., 2006). This group has also investigated the propa-
gation of purely bound infrared SPP modes on metal strips on the glass/silver interface at tele-
communications wavelengths by looking at photoluminescence of Er+ deposited in the glass
substrate of the waveguides and excited by the near field extending from the waveguide (Verhagen
et al., 2006). Leakage radiation microscopy and PSTM are not able to image such modes propa-
gating at the substrate-metal interface, because in the former case the phase-matching condition
is not satisfied for the propagation of light in the glass, thereby forbidding the radiation into the
glass (unlike waveguides using the metal-air interface), and in the latter case simply because
the field is not physically accessible. This group has collaborated extensively with the Atwater
group at the California Institute of Technology for their work in surface plasmons (see “Harry A.
Atwater” in the section below on “Plasmonic Waveguides and Other Electromagnetic Transport
Geometries”).
• Fabrice Vallée and Natalia Del Fatti, CNRS and Université Bordeaux , Talence, France—This
group has developed the technique of spatial modulation spectroscopy using supercontinuum to
measure directly the absorption of single gold and silver nanoparticles. This technique has been
demonstrated to accurately determine the particle ellipticity by measuring the spectrum with dif-
ferent incident polarizations and comparing the results to Mie theory (Muskens et al., 2006).
ExTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION, SuBWAVELENGTH HOLES:
SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• William L. Barnes, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom—Dr. Barnes’s group
has extended the study of extraordinary transmission beyond subwavelength holes. This group
has continued to study the basic processes underlying extraordinary transmission. His group has
also studied how surface plasmons mediate light transmission through metal films that contain
no subwavelength holes (Andrew and Barnes, 2004).
• Steven Brueck, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque—This group has pioneered both the fab-
rication and characterization of annular (coaxial) arrays and the use of these arrays for nonlinear
optics applications (by etching the structures into a gallium arsenide matrix before depositing the
metal films).
• Thomas W. Ebbesen, ISIS [Institut de Science d’Ingenierie Supramoleculaires], Université Louis
pasteur, Strasbourg, France—Dr. Ebbesen’s group originally discovered the extraordinary trans-
mission phenomenon. The group continues to study and characterize the fundamentals of the
phenomenon as well as explore applications. Recently, Dr. Ebbesen’s group has worked on using
subwavelength hole arrays coupled with molecules to approach the realization of fast all-optical
switching components (Dintinger et al., 2006).
• F.J. García-Vidal, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Luis Martín-Moreno,
ICMA-CSIC [Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragon, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas], Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain—This group focuses on theoretical
studies of the extraordinary transmission phenomenon. The group has published many studies that
support the surface plasmon view of extraordinary transmission. Recently they have continued
to study the phenomenon as well as different geometries for extraordinary transmission. For
example, they have recently studied the transmission of light through a rectangular hole (García-
Vidal et al., 2006).
• henri J. Lezec, Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied physics, California, Institute of Tech-
nology, pasadena, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, paris, France—Dr. Lezec is
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a proponent and co-originator of the controversial composite diffracted evanescent wave (CDEW)
model for explaining the mechanism underlying the extraordinary transmission phenomenon. He
has performed experimental measurements supporting this model.
• Teri Odom, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois—Dr. Odom’s group has done experi-
ments that support the surface plasmon model as the major process underlying extraordinary
transmission. Conventional studies of extraordinary transmission rely solely on far-field optical
data, but by definition, surface plasmons are confined to a surface and therefore cannot be directly
detected using far-field measurements. However, using a near-field scanning optical microscope,
the large electric field in close proximity to a surface due to surface plasmons can be directly
detected, allowing the plasmon oscillations to be imaged. By combining far-field and near-field
optical measurements, this group has shown direct evidence for the surface plasmon model of
extraordinary transmission (Gao et al., 2006).
• Evgeny popov and Michel Nevière, Institut Fresnel, Domaine Universitaire de Saint Jérôme,
Université d’Aix Marseille III, Marseille, France—This group studies the theory underlying the
extraordinary transmission phenomenon. It studies the basics of plasmons on films in the presence
of different types of nanoapertures.
• Tineke Thio, Arinna, LLC, princeton, New Jersey—Dr. Thio is a proponent and co-originator
of the controversial CDEW model for explaining the mechanism underlying the extraordinary
transmission phenomenon. She now has her own science consulting firm, Arinna, LLC, were she
continues to research the CDEW model and its implications.
PLASMONIC WAVEGuIDES AND OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORT
GEOMETRIES: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• harry A. Atwater, Thomas J. Watson Laboratory of Applied physics, California Institute of Tech-
nology, pasadena—This group has explored using nanoparticle chains as plasmonic waveguides.
Nanoparticles’ plasmon resonances couple to each other via the optical near field, allowing highly
localized waveguides that can support sharp bends quite well. Recently the group’s efforts have
shifted toward metal-insulator-metal structures for plasmon waveguiding. The group has experi-
mentally achieved this structure and characterized its confinement and propagation character-
istics, as discussed above (see “Albert Polman” in the section on “Techniques for Imaging and
Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Structures”).
• pierre Berini, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada—
Dr. Berini’s group was the first to observe long-range propagation in metallic stripe waveguides.
The group found plasmons that propagated out to several millimeters distance. The group has
extensively studied this system both experimentally and theoretically. Recently, Dr. Berini defined
figures of merit for plasmonic waveguides that seek to quantify the trade-off between losses that
shorten propagation lengths and confinement of the plasmon mode to subwavelength sizes (Berini
and Lu, 2006).
• Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark—Dr. Bozhevolnyi’s group was the
first to realize the channel plasmon polariton experimentally. After demonstrating that such struc-
tures can be fabricated and working to optimize the parameters of the groove-shaped waveguides,
the group demonstrated that such structures could support both long distance propagation and
high spatial confinement of the electromagnetic modes. This group has demonstrated the ability
to make basic optical components from these waveguides such as Mach-Zendher interferometers,
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Y-splitters, and resonant ring structures. Dr. Bozhevolnyi continues to study these waveguiding
structures.
• Mark Brongersma, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, California—
Mark Brongersma’s group has extensively studied surface plasmon polariton propagation on
metallic stripe waveguides. The group has demonstrated both experimentally and theoretically
that while these types of waveguides are capable of long-range propagation of SPPs, they are
not able to confine such guided modes in a subwavelength geometry. The group has shown the
difference between true, guided modes and leaky modes of the metallic stripe, and has predicted
and experimentally verified that at certain stripe widths, bound modes are cut off and no longer
propagate.
• Alain Dereux and Jean-Claude Weeber, Laboratoire de physique de l’Université de Bourgogne,
Optique Submicronique, Dijon, France—This group has studied many of the plasmonic wave-
guiding structures discussed above. It has focused mostly on characterizing metallic stripe wave-
guides. Recently the group has studied right-angle bends in such waveguides and has managed to
successfully route plasmon modes around such bends using tilted Bragg mirrors (Weeber et al.,
2005). This group has also studied how metallic nanoparticle chains affect the modes propagating
in microscale dielectric waveguides (Quidant et al., 2004).
• Dimitri K. Gramotnev, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;D.F.p. pile,
The University of Tokushima, Japan—Gramotnev and Pile have focused most of their attention
on channel plasmon waveguides, although they have studied many waveguiding systems. Using
finite difference time domain simulations, they conducted many of the first numerical simulation
studies of this geometry and originally predicted many of its remarkable waveguiding properties,
such as nearly zero loss at sharp bends and high spatial confinement of plasmon modes.
• Joachim R. Krenn, Alfred Leitner, and Franz R. Aussennegg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik,
Universitat Graz, Austria—This group has studied many geometries for plasmonic waveguiding,
including nanoparticle chains and metallic stripes and nanowires. The group was involved in
many of the earliest studies in these areas and, recently has studied a new system for plasmon
waveguiding that uses dielectric stripes on a gold substrate (Steinberger et al., 2006). The group
found this type of waveguide to be able to propagate guided plasmons efficiently, as well as to
direct plasmon modes around gradual bends in an analogous process to total internal reflection
and through junctions without significant losses.
• Stefan Maier, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom—Stefan Maier, originally a graduate
student in Harry Atwater’s group, conducted many of the early studies using nanoparticle chains
as plasmon waveguides. He has since studied other types of waveguides, and recently, terahertz
waveguiding structures. He has suggested using structures with periodic grooves in order to
support highly confined SPP-like modes that are ideal for waveguiding in the terahertz spectra
range.
PLASMON-BASED ACTIVE DEVICES: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Franz R. Aussenegg, Joachim R. Krenn, and Alfred Leitner, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz,
Austria—In addition to its pioneering work in passive plasmonic devices, this group has developed
a monolithically integrated organic diode surface plasmon polariton sensor allowing the direct
detection of surface plasmons at the end of a plasmon waveguide.
• Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark—This group is focused on devel-
oping plasmonic devices for subwavelength control of optical signals. Toward this end, the group
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has developed an in-line plasmon modulator based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons
propagating on metallic strips embedded in a polymer (Nikolajsen et al., 2004) and a number
of passive devices based on strip, particle, and channel waveguides. The group has also studied
near-field imaging techniques, including modeling in order to understand the collection properties
of uncoated dielectric fiber probes for probing the near field of plasmonic waveguides.
• Yang-Fang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China—This group’s
primary focus is on semiconductor structures such as quantum dots and quantum wells, porous
silicon devices, and the magnetic properties of semiconductor systems. Dr. Chen’s group has
demonstrated the use of electrically actuated liquid crystals to modulate the spectral position of
the plasmon resonance of gold nanorods (Chu et al., 2006).
• Raffaele Colombelli, Université paris Sud, Orsay, France—This group’s focus is on the mid-infrared
(IR), specifically the development of quantum cascade lasers and mid-IR surface plasmonics. One
aspect of the research is that of combining the two fields to develop devices to directly create
surface plasmons using electrical excitation by coupling surface plasmons to quantum well gain
media. The group is simultaneously developing this technique for both the construction of active
plasmonic devices in the mid-IR and the improvement of the far-field efficiency of quantum
cascade lasers.
• Christopher C. Davis and Igor I. Smolyaninov, University of Maryland, College park—The
Maryland optics group works in a wide array of fields, from biodetection using tapered optical
fibers to active plasmonic devices. In the latter area, the group has demonstrated all-optical devices
for controlling the transmission of light using surface plasmons on metal hole arrays (Smolyaninov
et al., 2002).
• Lukas Eng, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany—This group works on a
range of fields involving nanophotonics, including imaging using NSOM techniques to study
ferroelectric thin films, microfabricated NSOM tip fabrication, and active plasmonic devices. Of
particular note with respect to active plasmonics is the demonstration of stimulated emission of
surface plasmon amplification using an optically pumped dye gain medium on the surface of a
silver film (Seidel et al., 2005).
• Jochen Feldmann and Thomas Klar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany—This
group has demonstrated that the plasmon resonance of spherical gold nanoparticles can be shifted
significantly by applying an electrical bias across a cell containing nanoparticles and liquid
crystals. In the presence of liquid crystals, the spherical particles become effectively spheroidal
optically owing to the controllable anisotropy of the dielectric environment created by the liquid
crystals.
• Jaime Gómez Rivas, FOM [Fundamental Research on Matter] Institute for Atomic and Molecular
physics (AMOLF), philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands—Dr. Rivas’s
group is actively involved in developing methods to actively control low-frequency (THz)
plasmons propagating on semiconductor surfaces. In particular, the group recently demonstrated
a technique for all-optical switching of terahertz plasmons (Gomez-Rivas et al., 2006). Other
research in the group focuses on the optical properties of semiconductor nanowires.
• Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia—This group has worked in the
areas of random lasers and composite laser media with nonlinear media. It has looked at enhance-
ment of surface plasmons by coupling to a dye for gain in conjunction with Vladimir M. Shalaev’s
group at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (Noginov et al., 2006) (see “Vladimir M.
Shalaev” in the section above on “Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy”).
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• Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom—In the field of
plasmonics, this group has studied active plasmonic switching, nonlinear plasmonic devices, the
generation of plasmons by direct excitation with electron beams, and the effects of chirality and
broken symmetry in nanophotonic devices. For active plasmonics, this group has developed a
technique for the modulation of plasmons by using optical or thermal modification of the phase
of gallium, which radically alters the dielectric function changing the propagation of plasmons on
the gallium film (Krasavin et al., 2005). In thin films, this effect can be quite fast, on the order of
several picoseconds, enabling the high-speed modulation of surface plasmons either optically or
potentially electrically. This mechanism is distinctly different from other approaches, as it relies
on modifying the waveguide itself rather than the surrounding medium.
PLASMON-ENHANCED DEVICES: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• harry A. Atwater, California Institute of Technology, pasadena—This group has wide-ranging
interest in developing materials for nanophotonics including active devices based on semiconductor
nanocrystals and plasmonics. In conjunction with Albert Polman’s group in the Netherlands,
this group has characterized the use of plasmons to enhance the radiative decay rate of silicon
nanocrystals (Biteen et al., 2006) (see “Albert Polman” in the section above on “Techniques for
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Surfaces”).
• Toshio Baba, Fundamental and Environmental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Ibaraki,
Japan; Kikuo Makita, System Devices Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Shiga, Japan—
These groups have demonstrated the use of plasmonics to concentrate light into high-speed silicon
nanophotodiodes (Ishi et al., 2005). NEC Corporation is also investigating the use of plasmons
on concentric ring structures to focus light emitted from diode lasers into nanoscale volumes for
optical storage applications.
• Federico Capasso, harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts—In the region of plasmon-
enhanced devices, this group has been active in developing both plasmon-enhanced quantum
cascade lasers (QCLs), and plasmonic nano-antennas. The group has developed in a nano-antenna
deposited on the surface of a laser diode for generating intense subwavelength points of light
(Cubukcu et al., 2006). It has also demonstrated a single-mode surface-emitting terahertz QCL
using double-metal waveguide structures with periodic gratings in the top surface and efficient
absorbers to terminate the waveguide to achieve low-divergence vertical output (Tredicucci et al.,
2000).
• Shanhui Fan and Mark L. Brongersma, Stanford University, Stanford, California—The Fan group
studies computational modeling of photonic crystals, micro- and nanophotonic structures, and
solid-state devices. The Brongersma group experimentally studies plasmonic devices, plasmon-
enhanced lithography, semiconductor nanophotonics, and microresonators. In collaboration,
these groups have recently demonstrated theoretically the possibility of using surface plasmons
to enhance mid-IR detectors using surface plasmons on metallic nanowire gratings.
• Martin Green, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia—Dr. Green is the director of the
ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence and therefore focuses on energy applications—specifi-
cally, on ways of developing highly efficient photovoltaic devices as well as on work to improve
the emission efficiency of light-emission structures. To this end, he has made important contribu-
tions by demonstrating the enhancement both in emission and absorption by a thin-film silicon
diode device operating near the band edge (Pillai et al., 2006).
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• David A.B. Miller, Stanford University, Stanford, California—The Miller group is focused on
developing optoelectronic materials, devices, and systems. This includes work on topics such as
ultrafast all-optical switches, optical interconnects, and high-speed optical A/D converters. Of
particular note is the development of C-apertures in metallic films to create plasmon-enhanced
photodiodes at telecommunications wavelengths (Tang et al., 2006).
• Axel Scherer, California Institute of Technology, pasadena—This group has investigated the
coupling of surface plasmons to blue light emitters in order to enhance the output for use in high-
efficiency illumination devices. Enhanced emission from indium gallium nitride quantum well
structures and organic polymers using surface plasmons by radiative rate enhancement has been
demonstrated in collaboration with Yukio Narukawa and Takashi Mukai of the Nichia Corpora-
tion in Tokushima, Japan (Okamoto et al., 2004). A similar mechanism has been demonstrated
to work for enhancing the output of conjugate polymers which show potential for use as organic
light-emitting diodes (Neal et al., 2006). While thus far this research has been with optically
excited systems, the radiative rate enhancements should persist irrespective of pumping method
and therefore would be applicable in electrically stimulated devices as well.
• Alessandro Tredicucci and Fabio Beltram, NEST [National Enterprise for nanoScience and
nanoTechnology] CNR-INFM [Consiglio Nazionale delle Recherche Insitutuo Nazionale per la
Fisica della Materia] and Scuola Normale Superiore, pisa, Italy—This group is focused on the
development of novel quantum cascade lasers using intersubband transitions in semiconductor
superlattices to generate light in the terahertz spectral region. Toward this end, the group has
employed surface plasmons to enhance the overall performance of QCLs and to control the mode
structure to produce vertical-emitting single-mode lasers (Tredicucci et al., 2000).
PLASMONICS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE:
SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Naomi J. halas, Jennifer West, and Rebekah Drezek, Rice University, houston, Texas—The
Halas group has exploited the plasmonic heating of gold nanoshells in a variety of biomedical
applications. Nanoshells have been used to enhance the absorption of near infrared in laser tissue
welding (Gobin et al., 2005) and in photothermal ablation of cancer cells (O’Neal et al., 2004;
Hirsch et al., 2003). This work has led to a comprehensive scheme for the optical imaging of
cancer cells using gold nanoshells and photothermal ablation (Loo et al., 2005). A nanoshell-based
rapid immunoassay in whole blood has been developed that exploits the LSPR shift as nanoshells
aggregate in the presence of a specific antibody (Hirsch et al., 2003).
• Katrin Kneipp, Wellman Center for photomedicine, harvard University, Medical School, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology—Dr. Kneipp is one of the pioneers of single-molecule detection
using SERS (Kneipp et al., 1999). Currently she is investigating cellular uptake of gold colloid
and utilizing the gold colloid aggregates formed in the cells to probe the chemical composition
of biological structures, inside cells at the single-molecule level and at the nanoscale (Kneipp et
al., 2006b).
• Catherine J. Murphy, University of South Carolina, Columbia—Dr. Murphy’s group has developed
a novel optical technique that combines the light elastically scattered from gold nanorods with
digital image analysis to track local deformations that occur in vitro between cells, in real time,
under dark-field optical microscopy (Stone et al., 2007).
• Richard p. Van Duyne, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois—Dr. Van Duyne’s group has
successfully implemented localized surface plasmon resonance sensing to detect physiologically
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relevant concentrations of a marker for Alzheimer’s disease. The group has developed an optical
biosensor using LSPR to monitor the interaction between the antigen, amyloid derived diffus-
ible ligands (ADDLs), and specific anti-ADDL antibodies. Using the sandwich assay format,
this nanosensor provides quantitative binding information for both antigen and second antibody
detection that permits the determination of ADDL concentration and offers the unique analysis
of the aggregation mechanisms of this Alzheimer’s disease pathogen at physiologically relevant
monomer concentrations (Haes et al., 2005). The group has also developed various surfaced-
enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates for in vivo glucose sensing. In vivo glucose
sensors are based on SERS using alkanethiol modified silver films on nanosphere substrates. The
alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) allow the glucose to partition into the SAMs layer
and can be detected using SERS (Lyandres et al., 2005; Stuart et al., 2006b). The Van Duyne
group has also developed optical biosensors for the detection of anthrax biomarkers (Zhang et al.,
2005; Zhang et al., 2006) and chemical warfare agent half-mustard agent (Stuart et al., 2006a).
• Nikolay I. Zheludev, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom—Dr. Zheludev
developed a new, noncontact high-capacity optical tagging technique based on the use of nano-
structured barcodes. The tags are generated from a number of superimposed diffraction gratings.
The capacity for up to 68,000 distinguishable tags has been demonstrated. These tags can be
used to tag deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences for high-throughput genome sequencing
(Galitonov et al., 2006).
PHONON POLARITONS: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Rainer hillenbrand, Nano-photonics Group, Max-planck-Institute für Biochemie and Center for
Nanoscience, Martinsried, Germany—This group first observed near-field coupling of phonon
polaritons to a subwavelength tip and characterized this phenomenon. The group suggested that
this technique could allow for applications in the mid-infrared that are analgous to plasmon-based
phenomena in the visible and near-infrared ranges. The group is currently exploring the use of
the s-SNOM technique to study applications of surface phonon polaritons.
• Gennady Shvets, Department of physics and Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at
Austin—This group has proposed the use of surface phonon polaritons on a silicon carbide surface
—
to realize desktop particle accelerator technology. The group has designed a device based on this
concept and has performed initial tests using numerical modeling techniques as well as experi-
mental tests to observe and characterize the phonon modes propagating along the SiC surface.
This group continues to develop this technology and progress toward a final product.
EMERGING TOPICS IN PLASMONICS: SELECTED RESEARCH GROuPS
• Dan Grischkowsky, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater—This group has studied the surface propagation of plasmons on the cylindrical metallic
wire system. It has also recently studied the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on planar
metal sheets (Jeon and Grischkowsky, 2006). Like the Sommerfeld waves of the cylindrical wire
case, the group has identified these waves on a planar sheet as the classical Zenneck waves.
• Stefan Maier, University of Bath, United Kingdom—Dr. Maier originally focused his attention on
plasmonic waveguides in the visible and near-infrared spectral range, but he has recently become
involved with terahertz plasmonic waveguides as well. He has suggested that metal structures
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with periodic grooves should support SPP-like waves on their surface that are highly confined to
subwavelength sizes, and that these waves behave much like SPPs do in the visible range.
• Daniel M. Mittleman, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department., Rice University,
houston, Texas—Daniel Mittleman’s group first proposed the use of cylindrical metal wires
for terahertz plasmonic waveguides. He showed that such waveguides supported long distance
propagation with very limited dispersion. This group has continued to extend its understanding
of this system. For example, it has studied better methods of coupling terahertz radiation with
the wire (Deibel et al., 2006).
• paul C.M. plancken, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands—Dr. Plancken’s
group has also studied the cylindrical wire system as a terahertz waveguide and has extended this
study to include metallic wires coated in a dielectric. The group has found that the relatively low
dispersion of the metallic wire dramatically increases in this situation. It has suggested using this
property for many types of sensing applications.
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