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Design and modeling of reconfigurable surface plasmon resonance refractive index sensor using Al2O3, nickel, and heterostructure BlueP/WSe2 nanofilms

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In the past years, angular interrogation has been most widely used to calculate sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance sensors. The proposed surface plasmon resonance sensor incorporates ferromagnetic material nickel (Ni), and Al2O3 as a protective layer, and two-dimensional (2D) heterostructure material (Blue phosphorous-tungsten di-selenide). The device structure is based on Kretschmann configuration, in which Al2O3 sheet is sandwiched between silver (Ag) and nickel (Ni) films, to enhance the sensitivity of the SPR sensor in the visible region. The operated wavelength 633 nm has been used for proposed device structure. The numerical simulation has been performed by MATLAB and COMSOL Multiphysics 5.3a software in this article. The simulation results show for analyte refractive indices ranging from 1.330 to 1.335. The proposed SPR configuration consists of 20 nm Al2O3, 60 nm Ag, and a monolayer of BlueP/WSe2 which enhance the sensitivity 398°/RIU. Some other performance parameters like figure of merit, detection accuracy, limit of detection, full width at half maxima, and TM electric field intensity have been also calculated in this work. The proposed SPR sensor structural has been useful for biomedical and chemical fields.

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    Shivangani & Pooja Lohia

  2. Institute of Advanced Materials, IAAM, Gammalkilsvägen 18, 590 53, Ulrika, Sweden

    Pravin Kumar Singh

  3. Photonics and Photovoltaic Research Lab Department of Physics and Material Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, 273010, India

    Sachin Singh & D. K. Dwivedi

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Shivangani, Lohia, P., Singh, P.K. et al. Design and modeling of reconfigurable surface plasmon resonance refractive index sensor using Al2O3, nickel, and heterostructure BlueP/WSe2 nanofilms. J Opt 52, 1358–1369 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12596-022-00973-2

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