Rational Selection of Nanorod Plasmons: Material, Size, and Shape Dependence Mechanism for Optical Sensors

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-459

  Sekhon, Jagmeet Singh ^a   Verma, S S ^a  

^a SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Copper; Gold; MLWA approximation; Plasmon resonance; Refractive index sensitivity; Silver

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865485142     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9328-6     Document Type: Article

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