Plasmonic sensing characteristics of single nanometric holes
The optical response of isolated holes in 20 nm thin gold is probed as a function of alkanethiol CH3(CH2)(x)SH (x is an element of 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 approximate to 10-20 nm and that a single hole can be used to resolve the suc