Design of plasmonic grating structures towards optimum signal discrimination for biosensing applications

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11357-11369

  Bog, Uwe ^a   Huska, Klaus ^a   Maerkle, Frieder ^a   Nesterov Mueller, Alexander ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Mappes, Timo ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; SENSORS;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DESIGN WAVELENGTH; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GRATING MODULATION; GRATING PARAMETER; GRATING STRUCTURES; OPTIMAL SIGNALS; OPTIMUM SIGNALS; PLASMONIC; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SENSING SCHEMES; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; SINUSOIDAL GRATING; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM;

BENCHMARKING;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861130022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011357     Document Type: Article

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