The Study of Plasmonic Biosensors based on Mach-Zehnder Interferometry

Subject Areas : Optical Biosensors

Reza Kheradmand ¹ ( Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz-Iran )
Tanin Kazemzadeh ² ( Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran )
Fariba Lotfi ³ ( Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran )

Received: 2022-10-22 Accepted : 2023-01-21 Published : 2022-10-01

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