Bachelor or master thesis "Plasmon assisted amplification of biosensor sensitivity"
| Topic | Nanophotonics and -plasmonics, theory and simulation |
| Methods | Boundary Element Method (BEM), Mie Scattering |
| Skills | Computational electrodynamics, nanoscience, programming |
| Software | Python, C/C++, Matlab, Mathematica, COMSOL |
Nanopartikelzoo hergestellt mit chemischen Wachstumsprozessen. Nanostäbchen und –sterne sind für die Sensorik besonders interessant.
Image: Khlebtsov et al., Theranostics 2013; 3(3):167The ability to quickly and reliably detect minute concentrations of a toxin or specific molecule in a liquid sample is of great importance in medicine, pollution control and industry.
Advanced sensors allow parallel readout of multiple samples in a single illumination step. In this regard, metallic nanoparticles have the ability to enhance the efficiency of such sensors by modifying the light-matter interaction and allow the identification of minute molecular concentrations.
Modeling of various complex geometric designs and investigation of their efficiency are planned.