Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors [electronic resource] : A Materials Guide to Design, Characterization, Optimization, and Usage /
Oliveira, Leiva Casemiro.author.
Lima, Antonio Marcus Nogueira.author.
Thirstrup, Carsten.author.
Neff, Helmut Franz.author.
This significantly extended second edition addresses the important physical phenomenon of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) or Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) 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 described in detail. The text covers a 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. Whereas the first edition treated solely the metal-liquid interface, the SP-resonance conditions considered here are expanded to cover the metal-gas interface in the angular and wavelength interrogation modes, localized and long-range SP's and the influence of native oxidic ad-layers in the case of non-noble metals. Furthermore, a selection of metal grating structures that allow SP excitation is presented, as are features of radiative SP's. Finally, this treatise includes as-yet hardly explored SPR features of selected metal–metal and metal–dielectric superlattices. 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.
Introduction and background information -- Physical features of the surface plasmon polariton -- Design features of surface plasmon resonance sensors -- Modeling and data processing -- SPR-sensor properties of metal films and particles: free electron type metals -- Classical noble metals -- Noble transition metals of the platinum group -- Common transition metals -- Other common metals -- SPR active metal-type compounds -- Heavy metals -- Artificial metal-insulator multi-layer structures -- Practical Applications -- Conclusions.
This significantly extended second edition addresses the important physical phenomenon of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) or Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) 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 described in detail. The text covers a 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. Whereas the first edition treated solely the metal-liquid interface, the SP-resonance conditions considered here are expanded to cover the metal-gas interface in the angular and wavelength interrogation modes, localized and long-range SP's and the influence of native oxidic ad-layers in the case of non-noble metals. Furthermore, a selection of metal grating structures that allow SP excitation is presented, as are features of radiative SP's. Finally, this treatise includes as-yet hardly explored SPR features of selected metal–metal and metal–dielectric superlattices. 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.
Surfaces (Physics).
Interfaces (Physical sciences).
Thin films.
Optical materials.
Electronic materials.
Lasers.
Photonics.
Materials—Surfaces.
Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.
Optical and Electronic Materials.
Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.
Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.