{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Xiang Y"],"funding":["NCRR NIH HHS","National Institute of Health","National Nature Science Foundation of China","National Institute of General Medical Sciences","NIH HHS","NIGMS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["1099-1106"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8942129"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["When an ultrathin silver nanowire with a diameter less than 100 nm is placed on a photonic band gap structure, surface plasmons can be excited and propagate along two side-walls of the silver nanowire. Although the diameter of the silver nanowire is far below the diffraction limit, two bright lines can be clearly observed at the image plane by a standard wide-field optical microscope. Simulations suggest that the two bright lines in the far-field are caused by the unique phase distribution of plasmons on the two side-walls of the silver nanowire. Combining with the sensing ability of surface plasmons to its environment, the configuration reported in this work is capable of functioning as a sensing platform to monitor environmental changes in the near-field region of this ultrathin nanowire"],"journal":["Nanophotonics"],"pubmed_title":["Far-field optical imaging of surface plasmons with a subdiffraction limited separation."],"pmcid":["PMC8942129"],"funding_grant_id":["S10RR026370","S10 RR026370","R21 GM129561","11774330","R01 GM125976","S10OD19975","S10 OD019975"],"pubmed_authors":["Zhang D","Chen J","Wang R","Lakowicz JR","Zhan Q","Xiang Y","Tang X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Far-field optical imaging of surface plasmons with a subdiffraction limited separation.","description":"When an ultrathin silver nanowire with a diameter less than 100 nm is placed on a photonic band gap structure, surface plasmons can be excited and propagate along two side-walls of the silver nanowire. Although the diameter of the silver nanowire is far below the diffraction limit, two bright lines can be clearly observed at the image plane by a standard wide-field optical microscope. Simulations suggest that the two bright lines in the far-field are caused by the unique phase distribution of plasmons on the two side-walls of the silver nanowire. Combining with the sensing ability of surface plasmons to its environment, the configuration reported in this work is capable of functioning as a sensing platform to monitor environmental changes in the near-field region of this ultrathin nanowire","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Feb","modification":"2025-04-05T15:58:08.743Z","creation":"2025-04-05T15:58:08.743Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8942129","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35330809"],"doi":["10.1515/nanoph-2020-0500"]}}