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Fano Resonance in Plasmonic Crystals Enables High-Sensitive Arsenite Detection

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Fano resonance exhibiting characteristic asymmetric spectral line shape is a universal phenomenon, observed in diverse systems and is widely studied for its numerous potential applications. Here, we demonstrate a simple approach for high-sensitive arsenite detection using the changes in the spectral asymmetry of optical Fano resonance in precisely designed metamaterials, namely waveguided plasmonic crystals. For this purpose, we exploit selective binding of the toxic arsenite (As(III)) ions with optimized concentration of fluorescein-derived phenyl isothiocyanate molecules that are coated on top of a waveguided plasmonic crystal sample comprising of one dimensional periodic plasmonic gold grating on indium tin oxide waveguiding layer. The scattering spectra from the plasmonic crystal system with transverse magnetic (TM) polarization excitation show systematic changes in the Fano asymmetry parameter q with increasing concentration of arsenite, which is exploited for sensing arsenite down to a concentration of 1 ppm. Based on these results, we propose a robust plasmonic crystal metadevice that uses the polarized scattered intensities at two optimized wavelengths for high sensitive arsenite detection in natural aqueous environment.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by IISER-Kolkata, an autonomous institute funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. Additionally, S. K. R. acknowledges UGC, Government of India, for research fellowships and S. G. acknowledges CSIR, Government of India, for research fellowships. The authors would like to acknowledge the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, for funding.

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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Ministry of Education, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The authors would like to acknowledge the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, for the funding (grant No. CRG/2019/005558).

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  1. Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741246, India

    Subir K. Ray, Shyamal Guchhait, Ajmal A., Partha Mitra & Nirmalya Ghosh

  2. Department of Chemical Sciences, Polymer Research Centre, CAFM, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741246, India

    Tapendu Samanta & Raja Shunmugam

  3. Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 101 College St, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada

    Subir K. Ray

  4. Princess Margarete Cancer Research Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Canada

    Subir K. Ray

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SKR, SG, and AA performed the experiment. TS prepared the F-PITC. SKR and SG did the numerical simulation. RS and NG supervise the work. SKR, TS, and SG share equal contributions to this manuscript. All the authors have participated in writing the manuscript.

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Ray, S.K., Samanta, T., Guchhait, S. et al. Fano Resonance in Plasmonic Crystals Enables High-Sensitive Arsenite Detection. Plasmonics 17, 2015–2021 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-022-01687-8

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