Plasmonic gold mushroom arrays with refractive index sensing figures of merit approaching the theoretical limit

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Shen, Yang ^a   Zhou, Jianhua ^a   Liu, Tianran ^a   Tao, Yuting ^b   Jiang, Ruibin ^b   Liu, Mingxuan ^a   Xiao, Guohui ^a   Zhu, Jinhao ^a   Zhou, Zhang Kai ^a   Wang, Xuehua ^a   Jin, Chongjun ^a   Wang, Jianfang ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; GOLD; WATER;

CYTOCHROME; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD SAFETY; GOLD; PLASMA; PROTEIN; REFLECTIVITY; RESONANCE; SENSOR;

ADSORPTION; AIR; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FIELD; NANOFABRICATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STANDARD; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOCHROMES C; ELECTRICITY; GOLD; HUMANS; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84883276902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3381     Document Type: Article

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