Local refractive index sensitivity of gold nanodisks

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 10293-10300

  Häfele, Verena ^a   Trügler, Andreas ^a   Hohenester, Ulrich ^a   Hohenau, Andreas ^a   Leitner, Alfred ^a   Krenn, Joachim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; PLASMONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIELECTRIC LAYER; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTRAL SHIFT; STEP LITHOGRAPHY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84948703903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.010293     Document Type: Article

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