Thin-film sensing with planar terahertz metamaterials: Sensitivity and limitations

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1786-1795

  O'Hara, John F ^a   Singh, Ranjan ^b   Brener, Igal ^c   Smirnova, Evgenya ^a   Han, Jiaguang ^b   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Zhang, Weili ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHASE SHIFT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

BIOSENSING; RESONANCE SHIFTING; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR (SRR) ARRAYS; THIN-FILM SENSING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39049123588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001786     Document Type: Article

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