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Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: A Materials Guide to Design and Optimization

By Leiva Casemiro Oliveira , Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima , Carsten Thirstrup , Helmut Franz Neff (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-14925-7, 978-3-319-14926-4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-14926-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18936986 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Physics
Edition
1
Pages
183\188
Time added
2015-04-23 16:00:00
OptoelectronicsPlasmonics and Optical Devices; Surfaces and InterSurface and Interface ScienceThin FilmsThin Films; Optical and Electronic Materials; Opti

Description

This book addresses the important physical phenomenon of Surface Plasmon Resonance or Surface Plasmon Polaritons in thin metal films, a phenomenon which is exploited in the design of a large variety of physico-chemical optical sensors. In this treatment, crucial materials aspects for design and optimization of SPR sensors are investigated and outlined in detail. The text covers the selection of nanometer thin metal films, ranging from free-electron to the platinum type conductors, along with their combination with a large variety of dielectric substrate materials, and associated individual layer and opto-geometric arrangements. Furthermore, as-yet hardly explored SPR features of selected metal–metal and metal–dielectric super lattices are included in this report. An in-depth multilayer Fresnel evaluation provides the mathematical tool for this optical analysis, which otherwise relies solely on experimentally determined electro-optical materials parameters.

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