Excimer Laser Treated Plasmonic Sensor wins E-MRS Award

Thursday 26 May 2011

Michail is a PhD student at the University of Surrey. The poster title was “Excimer laser synthesis of metal nanoparticles on functional dielectric hosts for multicoloured patterning and plasmonic chemical sensors” and was co-authored by Dr Simon Henley and Prof. Ravi Silva. In this work Michail introduced a new readily scalable method for producing coatings of metal nanoparticles with very useful optical properties. Michail also demonstrated the use of these surfaces for detecting low-levels of chemicals, which could have important applications in security screening and medical diagnosis.

Professor Ravi Silva, Director of the ATI commented “This is a great accolade for the high quality research being conducted at the ATI. Providing technological solutions to key scientific issues has been an underlying theme of research conducted by the team at the ATI. The methodology proposed in this work by Michail has huge significance not only in high quality sensors but other optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs. We are working with partners on incorporating such processes to large area scalable devices”.