We investigated the near-field enhancement of a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) structure based on gold nanograting pairs with a nanosized gap. The results calculated by finite-difference time-domain and rigorous coupled-wave analysis methods presented that the nanogap enclosed by two neighboring nanogratings produced significant confinement and enhancement of electromagnetic fields ...

The effect of adsorption on momentum au and thermal aT accommodation coefficients and effective thermal conductivity kf of Ar vapor-filled Pt nanogap and nanocavity is examined using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics MD simulations. For the accommodation coefficients, the increase in solid-fluid or fluid-fluid interatomic interactions within adsorbed layer causes transitions in magnitudes of au...

A high-throughput fabrication of sub-10 nm nanogap electrodes combined with solid-state nanopores is described. These devices should allow concomitant tunneling and ionic current detection of translocating DNA molecules. We report the optimal fabrication parameters in terms of dose, resist thickness, and gap shape that allow easy reproduction of the fabrication process at wafer scale. The devic...

We explore novel nanometer-scale gaps with different widths in palladium (Pd) thin-film strips using hydrogen absorption under high-pressure conditions and different temperatures. Both the experimental measurement and numerical calculation are conducted to examine the electron conduction properties of the newly proposed surface conduction electron-emitters (SCEs). It is shown that this novel st...

Moiré nanosphere lithography (MNSL), which features the relative in-plane rotation between two layers of self-assembled monodisperse nanospheres as masks, provides a cost-effective approach for creating moiré patterns on generic substrates. In this work, we experimentally and numerically investigate a series of moiré metasurfaces by MNSL. Due to the variety of gradient plasmonic nanostructures ...

Coplanar electrodes formed from asymmetric metals separated on the nanometre length scale are essential elements of nanoscale photonic and electronic devices. Existing fabrication methods typically involve electron-beam lithography--a technique that enables high fidelity patterning but suffers from significant limitations in terms of low throughput, poor scalability to large areas and restricti...