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‘Plasmofluidic’ lens is tunable, reconfigurable

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Laser-induced bubbles on a metal film are the first demonstration of a plasmonic lens in a microfluidic environment. Integrating plasmonics and microfluidics could help in developing multifunctional plasmonic elements, highly sensitive biomedical detection systems and on-chip, all-optical information processing. Plasmonics is promising for these applications because it enables light manipulation beyond the diffraction limit. Nanoplasmonics combines the speed of optical communication with the portability of electronic circuitry in situations where conventional optics do not work, although...Read full article

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    Published: November 2013
    Glossary
    diffraction
    As a wavefront of light passes by an opaque edge or through an opening, secondary weaker wavefronts are generated, apparently originating at that edge. These secondary wavefronts will interfere with the primary wavefront as well as with each other to form various diffraction patterns.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    optical
    Pertaining to optics and the phenomena of light.
    plasmonics
    Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free electrons in a metal or semiconductor at the nanoscale. Specifically, plasmonics deals with the collective oscillations of these free electrons, known as surface plasmons, which can confine and manipulate light on the nanometer scale. Surface plasmons are formed when incident photons couple with the conduction electrons at the interface between a metal or semiconductor...
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