Imaging and Localization of Single Emitters near Plasmonic Particles of Different Size, Shape, and Material.

ABSTRACT: Colloidal plasmonic materials are increasingly used in biosensing and catalysis, which has sparked the use of super-resolution localization microscopy to visualize processes at the interface of the particles. We quantify the effect of particle-emitter coupling on super-resolution localization accuracy by simulating the point spread function (PSF) of single emitters near a plasmonic nanoparticle. Using a computationally inexpensive boundary element method, we investigate a broad range of conditions allowing us to compare the simulated localization accuracy to reported experimental results. We identify regimes where the PSF is not Gaussian anymore, resulting in large mislocalizations due to the appearance of multilobed PSFs. Such exotic PSFs occur when near-field excitation of quadrupole pla

SUBMITTER: Bloksma F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8521989 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature