Enhanced nanoparticle response from coupled dipole excitation for plasmon sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3332-3340

  Blake, Phillip ^a   Obermann, Jara ^b   Harbin, Braden ^a   Roper, Donald Keith ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic coupling; gold nanoparticle arrays; localized surface plasmon resonance; optical chemical sensor

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; COUPLED DIPOLE APPROXIMATIONS; COUPLED DIPOLES; DIPOLE COMPONENT; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EXCITATION PARAMETERS; FABRICATED ARRAYS; FAR-FIELD RADIATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GOLD NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; HIGH-PRECISION; LOCAL SURFACES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; OPTICAL CHEMICAL SENSORS; PLASMON SENSORS; REGULAR LATTICE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL FEATURE; THREE MODELS; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 80455137056     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2158417     Document Type: Article

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