Spectral shifts in optical nanoantenna-enhanced hydrogen sensors

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-118

  Tittl, Andreas ^a   Kremers, Christian ^b   Dorfmüller, Jens ^a   Chigrin, Dmitry N ^b   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; BLUE SHIFT; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; COMPETING EFFECTS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN SENSOR; HYDROGEN-SENSING; NANODISKS; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RED SHIFT; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; SPECTRAL SHIFT;

HYDROGEN; SENSORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84862151160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000111     Document Type: Article

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