• DocumentCode
    2095742
  • Title

    Plasmonic sensors based on Rayleigh anomaly

  • Author

    Yanxia Cui ; Guohui Li ; Kin Hung Fung ; Yuying Hao ; Sailing He ; Fang, Nicholas X.

  • Author_Institution
    Colledge of Phys. & Optoelectron., Taiyuan Univ. of Technol., Taiyuan, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Plasmonic sensors composed of metallic periodic grooves can excite very sharp and narrow reflection dip owing to Rayleigh anomaly and its figure of merit can be as high as 1100 when the sensitivity is 550 nm per refractive-index unit.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh scattering; inhomogeneous media; metallic thin films; optical sensors; plasmonics; surface plasmons; Rayleigh anomaly; figure of merit; metallic periodic grooves; narrow reflection dip; plasmonic sensors; sharp reflection dip;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • ISSN
    2162-108X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6274-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6510873