Dual channel planar waveguide surface plasmon resonance biosensor for an aqueous environment

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24412-24422

  Akowuah, E K ^a   Gorman, T ^a   Haxha, S ^a   Oliver, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; DUAL CHANNEL; EIGENMODE SOLVERS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; SELF-REFERENCING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO ACTIVE REGIONS; WAVEGUIDE SENSORS; WAVEGUIDE SURFACES;

BIOSENSORS;

GOLD; SILVER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GOLD; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WATER;

EID: 78649710042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024412     Document Type: Article

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