Hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride photonic crystals for improved-performance surface electromagnetic wave biosensors

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2405-2410

  Sinibaldi, Alberto ^a   Descrovi, Emiliano ^b   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^b   Dominici, Lorenzo ^a   Ballarini, Mirko ^b   Mandracci, Pietro ^b   Danz, Norbert ^c   Michelotti, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOSENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; HYDROGENATION; PLASMONS; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES;

EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; FIGURE OF MERITS; GUIDED MODES; METAL LAYER; NEAR INFRARED; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84867241772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.002405     Document Type: Article

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