Surface plasmon resonance characterization of thermally evaporated thin gold films

Surface Science

Volumn 601, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5445-5458

  Zhang, Sanjun ^a,c   Berguiga, Lotfi ^a   Elezgaray, Juan ^b   Roland, Thibault ^a   Faivre Moskalenko, Cendrine ^a   Argoul, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bruggeman; Effective medium theory; Maxwell Garnett; Surface plasmon microscopy; Surface plasmon resonance; Thin gold films

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EVAPORATION; THIN FILMS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; GLOBAL HETEROGENEITY; SCANNING SURFACE PLASMON MICROSCOPE (SSPM) IMAGES; SURFACE PLASMON MICROSCOPY;

GOLD;

EID: 36248947279     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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