Tapered Optical Fiber-Based LSPR Biosensor for Ascorbic Acid Detection

Guo ZHU; Lokendra SINGH; Yu WANG; Ragini SINGH; Bingyuan ZHANG; Fengzhen LIU; Brajesh Kumar KAUSHIK; Santosh KUMAR

doi:10.1007/s13320-020-0605-2

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