• DocumentCode
    547056
  • Title

    Optical trapping at the ultimate nanoscale in the near-field of plasmonic antennas

  • Author

    Lovera, Andrea ; Kern, Andreas M. ; Zhang, Weihua ; Martin, Olivier J F

  • Author_Institution
    Nanophotonics & Metrol. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study the trapping of nanoscopic objects in the near-field of plasmonic nanostructures and demonstrate experimentally that 10nm particles can be trapped in the 15nm gap of a dipole antenna. Applications for biosensing are discussed.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; dipole antennas; nanophotonics; nanosensors; plasmonics; radiation pressure; biosensing; dipole antenna; nanoscopic objects; optical trapping; plasmonic antennas; plasmonic nanostructures; size 10 nm; Charge carrier processes; Dipole antennas; Gold; Nanoparticles; Optical diffraction; Plasmons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951571
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=547056