A key challenge for the development of plasmonic nanodevices is their integration into active semiconducting structures. Gold-catalysed semiconductor nanowires are promising candidates for their bottom-up growth process that aligns a single gold nanoparticle at each nanowire apex. Unfortunately these show extremely poor plasmonic properties. In this work, we propose a way to enhance their plasm...

Nanoparticle manipulation is of increasing interest, since they can report single molecule-level measurements of the cellular environment. Until now, however, intracellular nanoparticle locations have been essentially uncontrollable. Here we show that by infusing a gold ion solution, focused laser light-induced photoreduction allows in situ fabrication of gold nanoparticles at precise locations...

BACKGROUND Radiation-sensitive polymer gels are among the most promising three-dimensional dose verification tools and tissue-like phantom developed to date. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is an investigating of percentage depth dose enhancement within the gel medium with used of conformal distribution gold nanoparticle as contrast agents by high atomic number material. METHODS In this wor...

There is considerable interest in the use of heavy atom nanoparticles as theranostic contrast agents due to their high radiation cross-section compared to soft tissue. However, published studies have primarily focused on applications of gold nanoparticles. This study applies Monte Carlo radiation transport modelling using Geant4 to evaluate the macro- and micro-scale radiation dose enhancement ...

Minnae Chabwera: NASA Undergraduate Research Scholar Advisor: Dr. Paul Guèye Institution: Hampton University Hampton, VA 23668 Introduction The research conducted under the guidance of Dr. Paul Guèye involved the construction of a Low Energy Electron Accelerator (LELIA) spearheaded by the Physics Department at Hampton University. The aim of this research has been to reactivate a thermionic gun...

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The combination of electron beam lithography and gold nanoparticle-based detection method is subject to a novel high-resolution approach to detecting DNA nanoarrays. In this work, gold nanoparticle-based detection of DNA hybridization on nanostructured arrays is presented. The nanostructured arrays were created by electron beam lithography of a self-assembled monolayer. Amine groups, which are ...

PURPOSE Bombarding high-Z material with x-ray radiation releases Auger electrons and Coster-Kronig electrons, along with deeper penetrating fluorescent x-rays and photoelectrons. The Auger and Coster-Kronig electron penetration distance is on the order of nanometers to micrometers in water or tissue, creating a large dose enhancement accompanied by a RBE greater than 1 at the cellular level. Th...

High atomic number nanoparticles are of increasing interest in radiotherapy due to their significant positive impact on the local dose applied treatment site. In this work, three types metal were utilized investigate enhancement based GATE Monte Carlo simulation tool. Gold, gadolinium, and silver implanted at different concentrations a 1 cm radius sphere mimic cancerous tumor inside 10 × 30 cm3...

Enhanced plasmonic fields are a promising way to increase the efficiency of photocatalytic water splitting. The availability of atomically thin materials opens up completely new opportunities. We report photocatalytic water splitting on ultrathin CdSe nanoplatelets placed in plasmonic nanogaps formed by a flat gold surface and a gold nanoparticle. The extreme field intensity created in these ga...