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Plasmonic Sensors on 2D Ordered Structures

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Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystals

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Colloidal lithography with polystyrene spheres allows for the fabrication of hybrid polymer/metal two-dimensional ordered surfaces. They consist of a hexagonal lattice of plasma-polymerized acrylic acid (ppAA) or poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) pillars embedded in an optically thick gold film deposited on a glass substrate. Such a kind of nanostructured system has been shown to support either propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons or “Mie-like” localized resonances, and appears to be particularly interesting for sensing applications. Tuning the structural parameters, a strong interaction among delocalized and localized plasmonic modes can be obtained together with a good coupling with light. This opens the way towards an optical biomolecular sensor system in which a modification/adhesion on the free nanostructured surface can be easily detected by a simple, near normal reflectance measurement performed from the substrate side, despite the relatively large gold thickness. The simple configuration allows for a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging configuration and enables the real-time multiplexed detection of several analytes. The sensing performance of the surfaces (sensitivity to refractive index change and to the adhesion of molecular monolayers) has been tested using standard spectroscopic techniques. The electromagnetic field’s spatial distribution within the nanostructures and its intensity enhancement have been numerically calculated by finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. The results, including the calculated reflectance spectra, are in good agreement with the experimentaldata.

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Acknowledgements

The research described above has been developed with the contribution of several students and researchers. The authors are indebted to Dr Francois Rossi and Dr Pascal Colpo of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Ispra for their support and collaboration. Dr.Gerardo Marchesini offered his competences in biotechnological problems and as a manager of Plasmore s.r.l.Silvio Vendrame, Rita Therishod, and Alessio Carmine Scipione gave their contribution during the preparation of their diploma thesis. Francesco Floris is now taking the heritage of the past work to explore new effects and develop new applications of the plasmonic systems in his PhD thesis work. All of them deserve the author acknowledgements.

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  1. Physics Department, University of Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Franco Marabelli, Silvia Giudicatti & Lucia Fornasari

  2. Plasmore s.r.l., via Deledda 4, 21020, Ranco, (Varese), Italy

    Andrea Valsesia, Paola Pellacani & Ana Frangolho

  3. Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission, Joint Research Center, via Enrico Fermi 2749, Ispra, 21027, Italy

    Andrea Valsesia

  4. Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 20, Dresden, 01069, Germany

    Silvia Giudicatti

  5. Department of Applied Physics, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain

    Paola Pellacani

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Marabelli, F., Valsesia, A., Giudicatti, S., Fornasari, L., Pellacani, P., Frangolho, A. (2015). Plasmonic Sensors on 2D Ordered Structures. In: Comoretto, D. (eds) Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16580-6_16

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