Plasmonics

, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 1093–1100 | Cite as

Integrated Terahertz Surface Plasmon Resonance on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Layer for the Profiling of Fluid Reflectance Spectra

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Abstract

We design terahertz (THz) surface-plasmon-resonance (SPR) sensors using a ferroelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) thin layer for biological sensing. The reflectivity properties based on SPR are described using transfer matrix method (TMM) and numerically simulated using finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method. The sensing characteristics of the structure are systematically analyzed through the examination of the reflectivity spectrum. The results reveal that the pronounced SPR resonance peak has quasi-linear relationship with the refractive index variation of the material under investigation. Through analyzing and optimizing the structural parameters of the THz SPR sensor, we achieved the theoretical value of the refractive index detection sensitivity as high as 0.393 THz/unit change of refractive index (RIU) for a 20-μm-thick liquid sample with a 10-μm PVDF layer. This work shows great promise toward realizing a THz SPR sensor with high sensitivity for identifying the signatures of biological fluid sample.

Keywords

Terahertz Surface plasmon resonance Ferroelectric polyvinylidene fluoride Reflectance spectra 
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Acknowledgements

Our work has been financially supported by the Nonprofit Technology Research Programs of Zhejiang Province of China under grant Nos. 2013C31088 and 2015C31116, the China National Natural Science Foundation No. 61379027 (Li), National Science Foundation CAREER Award under grant no. 0846313, and DARPA Young Faculty Award under N66001-10-1-4049 (Zhang).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Centre for THz ResearchChina Jiliang UniversityHangzhouPeople’s Republic of China
  2. 2.College of Information EngineeringChina Jiliang UniversityHangzhouPeople’s Republic of China
  3. 3.Thayer School of EngineeringDartmouth CollegeHanoverUSA

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