“…Attempts to integrate SPR biosensor apparatus, in order to reduce size and cost, have been proposed, like the use of: polymer-based prisms, using packaged (Chinowsky et al, 2003;Chinowsky et al, 2007;Elkind et al, 1999) or non-packaged arrangements (Loureiro et al, 2009;Loureiro et al, 2011;Moreira et al, 2009 andThirstrup et al, 2004), conventional (Cennamo et al 2013) and microstructured (Dash and Jha, 2014) optical fibers, silicon-based devices (Ghosh andRay, 2015 andPatskovsky et al, 2003) and nanoparticles-based devices (Atar et al, 2015;Rivero et al, 2012;Sener et al, 2011 andWillets andVan Duyne, 2007). For the nanoparticles-based devices the associated physics is different than SPR physics and the phenomenon is known as Localized SPR or LSPR.…”