ABSTRACT
Research in the eld of plasmonics has become very promising over a diverse range of areas, including nanoelectronics, energy harvesting, photothermal therapeutics, subwavelength domain optics, as well as in the development of sensing devices for applications in medicine, biotechnology, and environmental monitoring. In order to control the plasmonic characteristics of isolated or aggregated metallic nanostructures, one must have the capacity for specically “tuning” the dimensions, morphology, and milieu within which they reside [1]. Surface plasmon attributes may be signicantly modied when metallic nanostructures are brought into close proximity as a consequence of the robust interplay of localized surface-bound plasmons [2].
