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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
