Abstract
Inspired by the natural processes during morphogenesis, we demonstrate the transformation capability of active soft-matter to define nanoscale metal-on-polymer architectures below the resolution limit of conventional lithography. Specifically, using active polymers, we fabricate and characterize ultradense nanoplasmonic antenna arrays with sub-10 nm tip-to-tip nanogaps. In addition, the macroscale morphology can be independently manipulated into arbitrary three-dimensional geometries, demonstrated with the fabrication of an omnidirectional nanoplasmonic optical antenna array.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2590-2595 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nano Letters |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 13 Jul 2011 |
Keywords
- Nanoplasmonics
- active polymers
- nanogap
- nanosphere lithography
- omnidirectional antenna
- soft-matter