Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6049: Sensitivity Enhancement of Modified D-Shaped Microchannel PCF-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 6049: Sensitivity Enhancement of Modified D-Shaped Microchannel PCF-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor
Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20216049
Authors:
Abdullah Al Noman
Emranul Haque
Md. Anwar Hossain
Nguyen Hoang Hai
Yoshinori Namihira
Feroz Ahmed

In this work, a highly sensitive dual-core configured microchannel-based plasmonic refractive index (RI) sensor was investigated, which can be used for low RI detection. Both the sensing layer and the plasmonic material layer were built outside of the fiber design to detect the surrounding medium’s RI changes. Additionally, the effects of different plasmonic materials gold (Au), silver (Ag), and copper (Cu) toward sensitivity were investigated for the same structure. An adhesive agent was used in this work, titanium dioxide (TiO2), and was coated on top of the plasmonic material to prevent the oxidation of Ag and Cu. The coupling strength between the fundamental mode and the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode was observed to be very strong due to the TiO2 adhesive agent. With a resolution of 7.41 × 10−7 RIU, maximum wavelength sensitivity (WS) of 135,000 nm/RIU and amplitude sensitivity (AS) of 3239 RIU−1 were achieved using the proposed sensor while using Au as a plasmonic material for an analyte RI range of 1.29–1.39. A detailed study of relevant literature revealed that the achieved wavelength sensitivity for plasmonic m...

Source: Sensors - October 24, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Abdullah Al Noman Emranul Haque Md. Anwar Hossain Nguyen Hoang Hai Yoshinori Namihira Feroz Ahmed Tags: Letter Source Type: research