Negative refractive index metasurfaces for enhanced biosensing

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-36

  Jakšić, Zoran ^a   Vuković, Slobodan ^b   Matovic, Jovan ^c   Tanasković, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artificial nanomembranes; Biosensors; Chemical sensors; Long range surface plasmons polaritons; Optical metamaterials; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCAFFOLDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ARTIFICIAL NANOMEMBRANE; BIOSENSING; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; LONG RANGE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; METASURFACE; NANOMEMBRANES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE VALUES; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS; PLASMONICS;

PLASMONICS;

EID: 84889603850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4010001     Document Type: Review

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