Plasmon Spectroscopy: Methods, Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-345

  Horn, Natalie ^a   Kreiter, Maximilian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Introduction; Sensor; Surface plasmon spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649696817     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9148-5     Document Type: Article

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