“…In the N-layered matrix method, to analyze the reflectance and transmittance properties, the following three methods are surveyed, namely, the field tracing method, the resultant wave method, and the transfer matrix method [59]. The characteristics of better sensitivity with enhanced detection accuracy and figure of merit are endowed by this transfer matrix method [22,60]. In recent years, the fabrication techniques provide several geometries for the metal components, as shown in Figure 7c, which are used for tailoring the modal dispersion of the plasmons and to increase their coupling with the fundamental mode [61].…”