Highly Sensitive Refractive Index Sensing with Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-78

  Li, Yuee ^a   Ma, Aning ^a   Yang, Lili ^a   Zhang, Xiaoping ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mach Zehnder interferometer; Surface plasmon polariton waveguide; Waveguide sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895062151     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9599-6     Document Type: Article

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