Plasmon-Waveguide Resonances with Enhanced Figure of Merit and Their Potential for Anisotropic Biosensing in the Near Infrared Region

Figure 1

(a) Schematic illustration of the CPWR configuration that is used in the present study showing the structure composition and qualitative description of the different modes distribution inside the layers; (b) reflectivity versus incident angle for excitation wavelength  nm, showing the first two guided modes and the SP mode when the incident beam is TM polarized; (c) reflectivity versus incidence angle for TE polarization at wavelength  nm and the layers thicknesses given in the text.

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