US 11,726,386 B2
Plasmon coupling materials, methods of making plasmon coupling materials, methods of using plasmon coupling materials and systems and devices that include plasmon coupling materials
Janet E. Macdonald, Nashville, TN (US); Richard F. Haglund, Jr., Nashville, TN (US); Nathan James Spear, Nashville, TN (US); Kent A. Hallman, Nashville, TN (US); Summer L. Arrowood, Nashville, TN (US); Roderick B. Davidson, II, Nashville, TN (US); and Emil A. Hernandez-Pagan, Nashville, TN (US)
Assigned to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US)
Filed by VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/221,013.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/004,160, filed on Apr. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0311370 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. G02F 1/35 (2006.01); B82Y 15/00 (2011.01); B82Y 10/00 (2011.01); B82Y 20/00 (2011.01)
CPC G02F 1/353 (2013.01) [B82Y 10/00 (2013.01); B82Y 15/00 (2013.01); B82Y 20/00 (2013.01); G02F 2203/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A structure, comprising:
a harmonically paired set of particles, wherein the particles are separated by a dielectric layer, where the dielectric layer is of a thickness such that direct electron transfer does not occur between the harmonically paired set of particles.