Patent 8101424 was granted and assigned to University Of Maryland Baltimore County on January, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to detecting and/or measuring scattering effects due to the aggregating metallic nanostructures or the interaction of plasmonic emissions from approaching metallic nanoparticles. The scattering effects may be measured at different angles, different wavelengths, changes in absorption and/or changes in polarization relative to changes in the distances between nanoparticles.