Surface plasmon resonance sensors based on diffraction gratings and prism couplers: sensitivity comparison

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-24

  Homola, Jiří ^a   Koudela, Ivo ^b   Yee, Sinclair S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; METALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA WAVES; PRISMS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION; PRISM COUPLERS; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; RESONANT ANGLE INTERROGATION; RESONANT WAVELENGTH INTERROGATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032672151     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(98)00322-0     Document Type: Article

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