Local refractive index sensitivity of plasmonic nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9213-9220

  Piliarik, Marek ^a   Kvasnička, Pavel ^a   Galler, Nicolle ^b   Krenn, Joachim R ^b   Homola, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT REFRACTION; LITHOGRAPHY; NANORODS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC MASK; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; MEASURED DATA; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; PEAK SHIFT; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER MASKS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 79955805861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009213     Document Type: Article

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