DocumentCode
3231059
Title
Design considerations for nanoshell-based sensors
Author
Smaili, Sami ; Massoud, Yehia
Author_Institution
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
15-18 Aug. 2011
Firstpage
1060
Lastpage
1065
Abstract
We study the effect of variability on the robustness of nanoshell based sensors. On the one hand, nanoshells with higher aspect ratios have better quality factors, but their resonance wavelength is more prone to variability than that of nanoshells with lower aspect ratios. Our study takes into account the effect of aspect ratio on both the resonance wavelength and the quality factor and explore design methods for robust nanoshell-based sensors with as high a quality factor as possible.
Keywords
nanosensors; nanoshell-based sensors; quality factor; resonance wavelength; Analytical models; Dielectric constant; Nanobioscience; Q factor; Robustness; Sensitivity; Sensors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2011 11th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Portland, OR
ISSN
1944-9399
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1514-3
Electronic_ISBN
1944-9399
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NANO.2011.6144643
Filename
6144643
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