Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance and Refractive Index Sensitivity of Metal–Dielectric–Metal Multilayered Nanostructures

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1171-1181

  Katyal, Jyoti ^a   Soni, R K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); Multilayered nanostructure; Plasmon hybridization; Refractive index sensitivity (RIS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934923180     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-014-9728-x     Document Type: Article

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