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Plasmonics: influence of the intermediate (or stick) layer on the efficiency of sensors

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The efficiency of plasmon-resonance-based sensors can be greatly improved with an accurate design of the nano-structures that constitute them. In this work we focus our attention on the design of a particular kind of these nanometric structures that consists of planar multilayered systems. We show the significant influence, on the plasmon resonance conditions, of the intermediate layer used to adhere a thin film of gold to a dielectric substrate. To illustrate this effect, we consider different intermediate layers to compute the optimal geometry that vanish the reflected energy. For this, we use the S-formulation and an evolutionary method for the electromagnetic and the optimization problems, respectively.

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  1. L. Belmar-Letellier

    Present address: ITAAPY, 9 rue Darwin, 75018, Paris, France

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  1. Project Group for Automatic Mesh Generation and Adaptation Methods, Gamma Project, University of technology of Troyes, 12 rue Marie Curie, 2060, 10010, Troyes cedex, France

    D. Barchiesi, L. Moreau & T. Grosges

  2. Project Group for Nanotechnology and Optical Instrumentation, Charles Delaunay’s Institute FRE CNRS 2848, University of technology of Troyes, 12 rue Marie Curie, 2060, 10010, Troyes cedex, France

    D. Macías, T. Toury & E. Kremer

  3. Optical Department of FEMTO UMR CNRS 6174, University of Franche-Comté, 13 route de Gray, 2500, Besançon cedex, France

    L. Belmar-Letellier & D. van Labeke

  4. Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire, Cellulaire et Tissulaire (BioMoCeTi) UMR CNRS 7033, University of Paris XIII, UFR Santé, Médecine et Biologie Humaine, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017, Bobigny cedex, France

    M. Lamy de la Chapelle

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Barchiesi, D., Macías, D., Belmar-Letellier, L. et al. Plasmonics: influence of the intermediate (or stick) layer on the efficiency of sensors. Appl. Phys. B 93, 177–181 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-008-3173-5

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