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
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