Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors A Materials Guide to Design, Characterization, Optimization, and Usage /

• Main Authors: Oliveira, Leiva Casemiro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lima, Antonio Marcus Nogueira (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Thirstrup, Carsten (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Neff, Helmut Franz (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences, 70
• Subjects: 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.

 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.