Published: June 7, 2010

The paper presented by students from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dehui Wan , Yu-Ting Lai, and Chen-Chieh Yu, instructed by Prof. King-Fu Lin and Prof. Hsuen-Li Chen was put on the journal cover ofAdvanced Functional Materials.
 


 The image displays a flexible surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based waveguide sensor prepared by directly imprinting metal nanoparticles onto flexible plates, as presented by H.-L. Chen et al. on page 1742. The metal nanoparticles could scatter the evanescent wave and the guiding mode waves from the SPR-based waveguide simultaneously. The scattering signal underwent a distinguishable red-shift when the target molecules bound to the particles.