Sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance sensors based on metallic columnar thin films in the spectral and angular interrogations

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-212

  Shalabney, Atef ^a   Khare, C ^b   Rauschenbach, B ^b,c   Abdulhalim, I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical biosensors; Sculptured thin films; Sensitivity enhancement; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BRUGGEMAN FORMALISM; COLUMNAR THIN FILMS; DENSE FILMS; DEPOLARIZATION DYADICS; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; ELLIPSOIDAL INCLUSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLANCING ANGLE DEPOSITION METHODS; METAL FILM; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; POROUS FILM; PROPAGATION MATRIX; RED-SHIFTED; RESONANCE ANGLE; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS; SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENTS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPR SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR; SURFACE PLASMONS;

BIOSENSORS; DEPOSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACES; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80052306418     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.06.072     Document Type: Article

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