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Remote Spectroscopy Below the Diffraction Limit

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The ability to confine and direct light propagation at the surface of metals via surface plasmon polaritons has been at the centre of the growth in interest in nanoscale engineering of noble metals over the past decades. This chapter reviews the recent development in our laboratories of novel techniques for remote Raman and fluorescence sensing using sub-diffraction limit diameter metallic nanowires as plasmonic waveguides. Applications of remote sensing for chemical and live cell spectroscopy are discussed as well as insights into super-resolution imaging of metallic nanostructures.

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  1. ISIS & icFRC, Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    James A. Hutchison

  2. School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    James A. Hutchison

  3. Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

    Hiroshi Uji-i

  4. Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Hiroshi Uji-i

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  1. Institute of Fluorescence, University of Maryland Baltimore County, BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA

    Chris D. Geddes

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Hutchison, J.A., Uji-i, H. (2016). Remote Spectroscopy Below the Diffraction Limit. In: Geddes, C. (eds) Reviews in Plasmonics 2015. Reviews in Plasmonics, vol 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24606-2_16

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