Demonstration of diffraction enhancement via Bloch surface waves in a -SiN:H multilayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Liscidini, Marco ^a   Galli, Matteo ^b   Patrini, Maddalena ^b   Loo, Richard W ^a   Goh, M Cynthia ^a   Ricciardi, Carlo ^c   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^c   Sipe, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; DIFFRACTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

A-SIN:H; DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; IGG PROTEINS; SURFACE STATE;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 59349095934     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3076101     Document Type: Article

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