Infrared perfect absorber and its application as plasmonic sensor

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2342-2348

  Liu, Na ^a   Mesch, Martin ^a   Weiss, Thomas ^a   Hentschel, Mario ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glucose sensing; Infrared sensors; LSPR resonances; Perfect absorbers; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE SENSING; INFRA-RED SENSOR; INFRARED SENSORS; PERFECT ABSORBER; PLASMONICS;

GLUCOSE; INFRARED DETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SENSORS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 77955317318     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9041033     Document Type: Article

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