G02B 5/008
Surface plasmon devices
Official title: {Surface plasmon devices (diffractive gratings with a pitch less than or comparable to the wavelength G02B5/1809; surface plasmons in integrated optics G02B6/1226; optical analysis of materials by means of surface plasmons G01N21/553)}
G02B5/008 (Surface plasmon devices) appears on 644 US grants and 821 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 821
- Assignees
- 423
- Inventors
- 1,706
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 21 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Solid-state imaging device and method for producing solid-state imaging device22 Sep 2026US 12,745,471 B2National University Corporation Shizuoka University
- Light-driven nanodrones15 Sep 2026US 12,736,744 B2Julius-Maximilians-UniversitäT WüRzburg
- Pillar structures on an optical waveguide8 Sep 2026US 12,730,261 B2Intel Corporation
- Metasurface, metalens, and metalens array with controllable angular field-of-view11 Aug 2026US 12,704,659 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Plasmonic structured color filters for hyperspectral detection21 Jul 2026US 12,687,669 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Method of manufacture of a metasurface10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267033 A1Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur FöRderung Der Wissenschaften E. V.
- Hollow plasmonic nanstructures build up plasmonic metasurface10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267039 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Graphene-integrated plasmonic metasurface array10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267040 A1Carnegie Mellon University
- Biomimetic transparent nanoplasmonic meshes by reverse-nanoimprint lithography3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259354 A1
- Plasmonic well plate substrate for spectroscopic analysis, and manufacturing method therefor27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251823 A1Korea Institute of Materials Science
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical transmission control apparatus utilizing metal films perforated with subwavelength-diameter holes139US 6,040,936 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 2000
- Sub-wavelength aperture arrays with enhanced light transmission137US 5,973,316 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 1999
- CMOS image sensor113US 7,153,720 B2Quantum Semiconductor LLC · 2006
- Luminance control film105US 6,091,547 A3M Innovative Properties Company · 2000
- Near-field scanning optical microscope having a sub-wavelength aperture array for enhanced light transmission102US 6,052,238 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 2000