Surface inspection by monitoring spectral shifts of localized plasmon resonances

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12872-12879

  Albella, P ^a   Moreno, F ^a   Saiz, J M ^a   Gonzalez F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; PROBES;

DIELECTRIC SURFACE; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LOCALIZED PLASMON RESONANCE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOSCALE LEVELS; SPECTRAL VARIATION; SURFACE INSPECTION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 50049109732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012872     Document Type: Article

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