title: Plasmonic sensing characteristics of single nanometric holes.
abstract: The optical response of isolated holes in 20 nm thin gold is probed as a function of alkanethiol CH(3)(CH2)x SH (x epsilon in 1-15) and protein adsorption using dark-field spectroscopy. We establish that the plasmon excitations of single and short-range ordered 60 nm holes exhibit similar E-field decay lengths delta approximately 10-20 nm and that a single hole can be used to resolve the successive adsorption of a protein (biotin-BSA) and its interaction partner (neutravidin). The data confirm the localized character of the hole plasmon and demonstrate that its applicability for bio/chemosensing is similar to that of particle plasmons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rindzevicius
authors.forename: Yury
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Alaverdyan
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dahlin
authors.forename: Fredrik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Höök
authors.forename: Duncan S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Käll