Chiral sculptured thin films as integrated dual-modality optical sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8465, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mackay, Tom G ^a,b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b,c   Jamaian, Siti S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bruggeman homogenization formalism; Chiral sculptured thin film; Circular Bragg phenomenon; Surface multiplasmonics; Surface plasmon polariton wave

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BRUGGEMAN HOMOGENIZATION FORMALISM; CHIRAL SCULPTURED THIN FILMS; CIRCULAR BRAGG PHENOMENA; CIRCULAR BRAGG PHENOMENON; DUAL-MODALITY; METAL FILM; MULTISCALES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL SENSING; PLANAR INTERFACE; SPECTRAL SHIFT; THIN LAYERS; TWIST DEFECTS;

BRAGG CELLS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL SENSORS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84872138851     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.928981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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