Comparison of the sensitivity of air and dielectric modes in photonic crystal slab sensors

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14552-14557

  Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^a,b   Rahmani, Adel ^a,c   Steel, M J ^a,d   De Martijn Sterke, C ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR ULTRAHIGH BANDWIDTH DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS CUDOS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CAVITY DESIGN; COMPETING EFFECTS; FIGURE OF MERITS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL RESONANT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; QUALITY FACTORS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 69049095000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014552     Document Type: Article

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