Abstract

Devices and concepts based on nanoplasmonics have seen tremendous developments during recent years. On the one hand, nanophotonic waveguides based on surface plasmons have been shown to exhibit deep-subwavelength guiding properties, and on the other hand plasmonic nanostructures have been optimized for local sensing applications, such as surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). In both application fields, there is a need for integration of the plasmonic nanostructures with either local sources and detectors, or to embed them in a local nanofluidic system, allowing deterministic Raman enhancements, matched with the presence of the analyte.

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