Monolithically integrated mid-infrared lab-on-a-chip using plasmonics and quantum cascade structures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Schwarz, Benedikt ^a   Reininger, Peter ^a   Ristanić, Daniela ^a   Detz, Hermann ^a   Andrews, Aaron Maxwell ^a   Schrenk, Werner ^a   Strasser, Gottfried ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IMPEDANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LAB ON A CHIP; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PERIODICITY; REFRACTION INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; DEVICES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84902146809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5085     Document Type: Article

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