Improving the sensitivity of SPR sensors based on gratings by double-dips method (DDM)

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14597-14602

  Cai, Debin ^a   Lu, Yonghua ^a   Lin, Kaiqun ^a   Wang, Pei ^a   Ming, Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; PRISMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GRATING PROFILE; HIGHER DIFFRACTION ORDER; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SPR SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 51849106987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014597     Document Type: Article

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