The plasmonics is expected to be a potential candidate of future sensing technologies, such as single-molecular detections and surface-enhanced Raman scattering, because of concentrated and enhanced electric fields at a sharp edge of a metallic nanostructure. In particular, breaking symmetry of a plasmonic structure results in anisotropic angular optical responses and allows a broad tunability of surface plasmons. In this study, we suggest a structure of asymmetric double metal caps on a dielectric nanosphere in order to increase the asymmetry of component structures and to improve the tunability of a plasmonic sensor.

Date Published: 1 July 2015
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 9655, Fifth Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, 965532 (1 July 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2184383

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9655:
Fifth Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference
Byoungho Lee; Sang-Bae Lee; Yunjiang Rao, Editor(s)