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Light Manipulation by Gold Nanobumps

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Backward and forward scattering of surface plasmonic wave interactions from gold nanobumps on the surface of a 30-nm gold thin film demonstrate three-dimensional (3-D) focusing and diverging properties. Fan-shaped forward scattering of an individual nanobump is observed. A quarter-circle structure composed of nanobumps is exploited to manipulate scattering from each nanobump. Experimental results show that 3-D propagation vectors generated by the gold nanobumps with their heights of 16 nm can deflect the surface plasmonic waves to produce 3-D focusing at 3.6 μm above the surface of the gold film. We clearly demonstrate that 3-D forward and backward focusing from gold nanobumps are with different amplitudes and directions of the vertical propagation vectors.

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The authors thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, for the financial support of this project under grant numbers 99-2911-I-002-127, 99-2120-M-002-012, 100-2923-M-002-007-MY3, and 100-2120-M-002-008. They also thank the Molecular Imaging Center of the National Taiwan University for technical support.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Chia Min Chang & Ding-Wei Huang

  2. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Chia Min Chang, Cheng Hung Chu, Hsin Wei Huang, Bo Han Chen & Din Ping Tsai

  3. Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Ming Lun Tseng, Yao-Wei Huang & Din Ping Tsai

  4. Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan

    Din Ping Tsai

  5. Instrument Technology Research Center, National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

    Din Ping Tsai

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Chang, C.M., Chu, C.H., Tseng, M.L. et al. Light Manipulation by Gold Nanobumps. Plasmonics 7, 563–569 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9343-7

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