Large-Area Plasmonics on Self-Organized Wrinkled Nanopatterns

The focus of my PhD project consisted in the development of self-organized, large area, industrially scalable physical methods based on wrinkling instabilities to nanopattern and functionalize tunable plasmonic polymeric polydimetilsyloxane (PDMS) and solid-state glass surfaces, both transparent, non-toxic and cheap materials, for applications of significant technological interest in photonics and bio-sensing.