Surface plasmon resonance from metallic columnar thin films

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 176-185

  Shalabney, A ^a   Lakhtakia, A ^b,c   Abdulhalim, I ^a   Lahav, A ^a   Patzig, Christian ^d   Hazek, I ^a   Karabchevsky, A ^a   Rauschenbach, Bernd ^d   Zhang, F ^b   Xu, J ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical biosensors; Sculptured thin films; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BEST FIT; BIAXIAL ANISOTROPY; COLUMNAR THIN FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOISLAND; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATIONS; SCATTERING LOSS; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS; SPR SIGNALS; SURFACE PLASMONS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; TWO LAYERS; WAVE NUMBERS;

BIOSENSORS; CHROMIUM; PLASMONS; POROSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILVER; THIN FILMS;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70649105651     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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