Recent advances in plasmonic sensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 7959-7973

  Tong, Lianming ^a   Wei, Hong ^a   Zhang, Shunping ^b   Xu, Hongxing ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs); Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs); Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors; Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NANOWIRES; PLASMONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SENSORS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; PROPAGATING SURFACE PLASMONS; SENSING TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84899872238     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140507959     Document Type: Review

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