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

by Leiva Casemiro Oliveira (Author), Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima (Author), Carsten Thirstrup (Author), Helmut Franz Neff (Author)

From the Back Cover
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 superlattices 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.

About the Author
MSc Leiva Oliveira Dr. Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima Dr. Carsten Thirstrup Dr. Helmut Franz Neff.