Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications

Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based sensing technologies show great promise in diverse applications (e.g. biosensing) as one of the most innovative and exciting label-free sensing techniques in the last few years. In general, SPR-based sensors combine metal and dielectric interfaces, where the osc...

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Main Authors: Elora Nahid, Md Jahirul Islam, Md Rejvi Kaysir, Sheikh Shahriar Hossain, Mohammad Shaifur Rahman
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:Results in Optics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666950123001128
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author Elora Nahid
Md Jahirul Islam
Md Rejvi Kaysir
Sheikh Shahriar Hossain
Mohammad Shaifur Rahman
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Md Jahirul Islam
Md Rejvi Kaysir
Sheikh Shahriar Hossain
Mohammad Shaifur Rahman
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description Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based sensing technologies show great promise in diverse applications (e.g. biosensing) as one of the most innovative and exciting label-free sensing techniques in the last few years. In general, SPR-based sensors combine metal and dielectric interfaces, where the oscillation of metal’s free electrons occurs by the incident incoming photons. Thus, the SPR signal strength depends on the metal’s optical properties as well as the surrounding dielectric medium. This work thoroughly investigates the performance of a single mode D-shape SPR-based refractive index (RI) sensor with its gold (Au) strip topology to improve the detection sensitivity. Seven distinct Au strip designs: single-arc, inverted single-arc, multi-arc, inverted multi-arc, half-circle, coil, and sinusoidal wave are introduced to explore sensor performances, which are investigated numerically using Comsol Multiphysics. Systematic investigations are carried out for all seven proposed designs and relative comparisons are made in terms of sensitivity (wavelength and amplitude), resolution, and figure of merit (FoM). Coil and sinusoidal wave-shaped designs show excellent performance among all seven designs with a wide range of analytes’ RI (i.e. 1.31 to 1.39). The maximum wavelength and amplitude sensitivities are found to be 48000 nm/RIU and 18.55 RIU−1 respectively, with a wavelength resolution of 2.08 × 10-6 RIU and a consequent FoM of 141.18 RIU−1 for the sinusoidal wave-shaped Au-strip design. Alternatively, the coil-shaped design shows the maximum wavelength and amplitude sensitivities of 45000 nm/RIU and 32.17 RIU−1 respectively, with a wavelength resolution of 2.22 × 10-6 RIU and a FoM of 85.71 RIU−1. As a wide range of analyte’s RI can be detected by the proposed sinusoidal wave and coil Au-strip-based D-shaped sensors with improved sensitivity, these designs could be effectively used for the detection of different bio-analytes.
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spelling doaj.art-e1404c829ca44e1093552ee9bb25ad242023-08-29T04:18:10ZengElsevierResults in Optics2666-95012023-07-0112100460Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applicationsElora Nahid0Md Jahirul Islam1Md Rejvi Kaysir2Sheikh Shahriar Hossain3Mohammad Shaifur Rahman4Photonics Research Group, EEE, KUET, Bangladesh; Department of EEE, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna 9203, Bangladesh; Corresponding author at: Photonics Research Group, EEE, KUET, Bangladesh.Photonics Research Group, EEE, KUET, Bangladesh; Department of EEE, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna 9203, BangladeshPhotonics Research Group, EEE, KUET, Bangladesh; Department of EEE, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna 9203, BangladeshPhotonics Research Group, EEE, KUET, Bangladesh; Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT), KUET, Khulna 9203, BangladeshDepartment of EEE, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna 9203, BangladeshSurface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based sensing technologies show great promise in diverse applications (e.g. biosensing) as one of the most innovative and exciting label-free sensing techniques in the last few years. In general, SPR-based sensors combine metal and dielectric interfaces, where the oscillation of metal’s free electrons occurs by the incident incoming photons. Thus, the SPR signal strength depends on the metal’s optical properties as well as the surrounding dielectric medium. This work thoroughly investigates the performance of a single mode D-shape SPR-based refractive index (RI) sensor with its gold (Au) strip topology to improve the detection sensitivity. Seven distinct Au strip designs: single-arc, inverted single-arc, multi-arc, inverted multi-arc, half-circle, coil, and sinusoidal wave are introduced to explore sensor performances, which are investigated numerically using Comsol Multiphysics. Systematic investigations are carried out for all seven proposed designs and relative comparisons are made in terms of sensitivity (wavelength and amplitude), resolution, and figure of merit (FoM). Coil and sinusoidal wave-shaped designs show excellent performance among all seven designs with a wide range of analytes’ RI (i.e. 1.31 to 1.39). The maximum wavelength and amplitude sensitivities are found to be 48000 nm/RIU and 18.55 RIU−1 respectively, with a wavelength resolution of 2.08 × 10-6 RIU and a consequent FoM of 141.18 RIU−1 for the sinusoidal wave-shaped Au-strip design. Alternatively, the coil-shaped design shows the maximum wavelength and amplitude sensitivities of 45000 nm/RIU and 32.17 RIU−1 respectively, with a wavelength resolution of 2.22 × 10-6 RIU and a FoM of 85.71 RIU−1. As a wide range of analyte’s RI can be detected by the proposed sinusoidal wave and coil Au-strip-based D-shaped sensors with improved sensitivity, these designs could be effectively used for the detection of different bio-analytes.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666950123001128SPRD shape sensorMulti-arc Au stripWavelength sensitivityAmplitude sensitivityResolution
spellingShingle Elora Nahid
Md Jahirul Islam
Md Rejvi Kaysir
Sheikh Shahriar Hossain
Mohammad Shaifur Rahman
Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
Results in Optics
SPR
D shape sensor
Multi-arc Au strip
Wavelength sensitivity
Amplitude sensitivity
Resolution
title Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
title_full Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
title_fullStr Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
title_full_unstemmed Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
title_short Au-strip structure dependent performance investigation of D-shaped SPR sensors for biosensing applications
title_sort au strip structure dependent performance investigation of d shaped spr sensors for biosensing applications
topic SPR
D shape sensor
Multi-arc Au strip
Wavelength sensitivity
Amplitude sensitivity
Resolution
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666950123001128
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