Nanoplasmonics

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href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/10/revolution-still-making-nist-researchers-chart-future-nucleic-acid"><span property="schema:name">A Revolution Still in the Making: NIST Researchers Chart the Future of Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2022-10-27T12:00:00Z">October 27, 2022</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> Trapped in a microscopic cage made of strands of DNA, molecules of a life-saving drug course through the bloodstream of a cancer patient. 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NIST-Led Team Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Rapidly Reroute Light in Computer Chips</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2019-11-14T12:00:00Z">November 14, 2019</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/news-events/news/2018/04/doing-nano-shimmy" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/doing-nano-shimmy" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240521231926im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2018/04/09/18cnst002_plasmomechanical_oscillator.jpg?itok=vGR81Sud" width="100" height="100" alt="Illustration of a plasmomechanical oscillator" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2018/04/doing-nano-shimmy"><span property="schema:name">Doing the Nano-Shimmy</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2018-04-09T12:00:00Z">April 9, 2018</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> Imagine a single particle, only one-tenth the diameter of a bacterium, whose miniscule jiggles induce sustained vibrations in an entire mechanical device some </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="link-list"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news-updates/topic/249196">View All News and Updates</a></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-container margin-y-4"> </div> <div class="grid-container margin-y-4"> </div> <div class="grid-container margin-y-4"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--dynamic-content-list-topic paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="nist-region-heading"> <h2> <div class="string">Projects and Programs</div> </h2> </div> <div class="nist-block "> <div class="viewsreference"><div class="views-element-container"><div class="js-view-dom-id-e6094e32f48591b60b7c5e260d92331bddce2982e003d8d05b38280e7f2a6afd"> <div> <article about="/programs-projects/nano-chemical-imaging-and-spectroscopy-ir-nir-vis" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nano-chemical-imaging-and-spectroscopy-ir-nir-vis" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240521231926im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2019/12/12/fig1.png?itok=epQryoHT" width="100" height="67" alt="PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nano-chemical-imaging-and-spectroscopy-ir-nir-vis"><span>Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__type"> <div class="nist-badge display-inline-block margin-y-1 nist-badge--blue boolean">Ongoing</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. 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The properties stem from </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article about="/programs-projects/nanostructures-energy-conversion" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nanostructures-energy-conversion" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20240521231926im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/cnst/erg/talin_fig_1.png?itok=Z3MdPUQ9" width="100" height="65" alt="Talin_fig_1" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nanostructures-energy-conversion"><span>Nanostructures for Energy Conversion</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__type"> <div class="nist-badge display-inline-block margin-y-1 nist-badge--green boolean">Completed</div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-long"> Electrochemical systems containing nanostructured materials are increasingly being incorporated into devices for efficiently harvesting, storing, and converting </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="link-list"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/laboratories/projects-programs/topic/249196">View All Projects/Programs</a></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-container margin-y-4"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--dynamic-content-list-topic paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="nist-region-heading"> <h2> <div class="string">Publications</div> </h2> </div> <div class="nist-block "> <div class="viewsreference"><div class="views-element-container"><div class="js-view-dom-id-58a4be92b988f9875522ff4456666a6c36869c4239b29692f06798635a8677c5"> <div> <article about="/publications/deep-learning-image-analysis-nanoplasmonic-sensors-toward-medical-breath-monitoring" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20240521231926/https://www.nist.gov/publications/deep-learning-image-analysis-nanoplasmonic-sensors-toward-medical-breath-monitoring"><span>Deep Learning Image Analysis of Nanoplasmonic Sensors: Toward Medical Breath Monitoring</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2022-11-23T12:00:00Z">November 23, 2022</time> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__type"> <div class="nist-field nist-field--label-inline text-long"> <div class="nist-field__label">Author(s)</div> <div class="nist-field__item"><span class="nist-author">Yangyang Zhao</span>, Boqun Dong, <span class="nist-author">Kurt D. 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