High performance plasmonic crystal sensor formed by soft nanoimprint lithography

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5669-5675

  Malyarchuk, Viktor ^a   Hua, Feng ^a   Mack, Nathan H ^a   Velasquez, Vanessa T ^a   White, Jeffrey O ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^a   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOLOGICAL SENSING; EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS; MICROSTRUCTURE FABRICATION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 23744501373     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005669     Document Type: Article

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