“…The availability of latex spheres, with specific, well-controlled diameters on the scale of the wavelength of incident light, has spurred many applications in microtechnology, nanotechnology, and plasmonics. , Tiny spheres are short-focal-length lensing elements that can be coated with metal to produce subwavelength plasmonic structures. , They exhibit resonances associated with multiple reflections within the sphere, such as whispering gallery modes, , and have been used as microlasers . Placing an individual latex microsphere into a metal microchannel affects the infrared (IR) spectral properties of both the metal film and the microsphere.…”