Modeling Chiral Sculptured Thin Films as Platforms for Surface-Plasmonic-Polaritonic Optical Sensing
Modeling Chiral Sculptured Thin Films as Platforms for Surface-Plasmonic-Polaritonic Optical Sensing
Biomimetic nanoengineered metamaterials called chiral sculptured thin films (CSTFs) are attractive platforms for optical sensing because their porosity, morphology, and optical properties can be tailored to order. Furthermore, their ability to support more than one surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) wave at a planar interface with a metal offers functionality beyond that associated …