Modeling of Au-nanowire waveguide for plasmonic sensing in liquids

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 4233-4238

  Wang, Yipei ^a   Guo, Xin ^a   Tong, Limin ^a   Lou, Jingyi ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanowires; Sensors; Surface plasmons; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIQUIDS; NANOSENSORS; PLASMONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SENSORS; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

CALCULATED SENSITIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INDEX MATCHING; PLASMONIC SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SENSING PLATFORMS; WAVEGUIDING PROPERTIES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84907502789     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2354696     Document Type: Article

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