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'Dark plasmons' transmit energy

Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers efficiently couple light from a plane wave into a surface plasmon mode

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have made a grating coupler that transmits over 45 % of the incident optical energy from a plane wave into a single surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biochip measures glucose in saliva, not blood

For the 26 million Americans with diabetes, drawing blood is the most prevalent way to check glucose levels. It is invasive and at least minimally painful. Researchers at Brown University are working on a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Plasmonic nanoantennas' show promise in optical innovations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have shown how arrays of tiny "plasmonic nanoantennas" are able to precisely manipulate light in new ways that could make possible a range of optical innovations such as more powerful ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plasmonic device converts light into electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the most common device for converting light into electricity may be photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, a variety of other devices can perform the same light-to-electricity conversion, such ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Nanoparticle imaging: A resonant improvement

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful technique for analyzing atomic structure based on the inelastic scatter of light from molecules, with diverse applications including medical imaging and chemical sensing. Researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanobelts support manipulation of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like 2-by-4s, but the materials being created in a Rice University lab are more suited to construction with light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

World’s first 3D plasmon ruler: Taking the 3-D measure of macromolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first three-dimensional plasmon rulers, capable of measuring nanometer-scale spatial changes in macrmolecular systems, have been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Periodic structures in organic light-emitters can efficiently enhance, replenish surface plasmon waves

The irradiation of a metal surface with light or electrons can result in the formation of coherent electronic oscillations called surface plasmons, an effect ideal for applications such as optical communications ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sharpening the nanofocus: Researchers use nanoantenna to enhance plasmonic sensing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Such highly coveted technical capabilities as the observation of single catalytic processes in nanoreactors, or the optical detection of low concentrations of biochemical agents and gases ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Measurement of 'hot' electrons could have solar energy payoff

(PhysOrg.com) -- Basic scientific curiosity paid off in unexpected ways when Rice University researchers investigating the fundamental physics of nanomaterials discovered a new technology that could dramatically ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Highly sensitive graphene biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance

Adding a few graphene layers onto the conventional gold-film SPR biosensor will boost up its sensitivity dramatically. The improved sensitivity comes from the graphene layer’s increased adsorption of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New kid on the plasmonic block

With its promise of superfast computers and ultrapowerful optical microscopes among the many possibilities, plasmonics has become one of the hottest fields in high-technology. However, to date plasmonic properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover way to create true-color 3-D holograms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satoshi Kawata, Miyu Ozaki and their team of photonics physicists at Osaka University in Japan, have figured out a way to capture the original colors of an object in a still 3-D hologram by ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report