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Plasmonic Sensor Based on Silver Nanoparticles for the Detection of Glucose

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Sensors for detecting glucose concentrations are crucial to medical testing. Here, we introduce silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) uniformly distributed in space to investigate the sensing properties for detecting glucose by using the finite-different time-domain (FDTD) and experimental methods. The results show that the transmittance of dip for the proposed structural model gradually decreases as the number of Ag NPs increases, when the concentration of glucose is constant. And the transmission spectrum shows slight red shift with the increasing of the glucose concentration. Moreover, the simulation results are in agreement with the experimental results. Especially, the maximum sensitivity S = 1144.07407 nm/RIU can be realized for glucose concentration variation from 0.3 to 0.4 mol/L. The research results reveal an excellent sensing property that has important application value in medical detection.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 62065017) and the Education Department Program of Shaanxi (21JK0981).

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  1. School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yan’an University, Yan’an, 716000, China

    Lingqiao Li, Wei Cui, Zhihui He & Weiwei Xue

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This research was planned by Zhihui He and Lingqiao Li. Numerical simulation was performed by Wei Cui, Hui He, and Lingqiao Li. Lingqiao Li did the experiments. The authors Zhihui He, Hui He, and Lingqiao Li discussed the results. Lingqiao Li wrote the original manuscript.

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Li, L., Cui, W., He, Z. et al. Plasmonic Sensor Based on Silver Nanoparticles for the Detection of Glucose. Plasmonics 17, 1231–1234 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-022-01617-8

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