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A Waveguide-Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Using an Au-MgF2-Au Structure

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We describe an Au-MgF2-Au trilayered waveguide-coupled surface plasmon resonance (WCSPR) sensor in this article. The characteristics of this sensing structure are compared with those of the conventional single-layered gold surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor theoretically and experimentally. The experiment results show that WCSPR can provide not only seven times smaller refractive index resolution in the bulk sensing application but also more accurate measurement results for the biomolecular interaction analysis than the conventional single-layered gold SPR. What’s more, this high-resolution sensor is easy to build and not sensitive to film thickness variations. The Au-MgF2-Au trilayered WCSPR may provide a simple and convenient chip-based strategy for performance enhancement of SPR sensors without varying the hardware and software of measurement instruments.

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This research was made possible with the financial support from NSFC China (61275188, 61361160416), Science and Technology Research Program of Shenzhen City (JSGG20150331151536448, CXZZ20140416160720723), and National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project (2013YQ040911).

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  1. Beijing Scientific Instrument Research and Development Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Pengfei Zhang & Dong Wei

  2. Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Pengfei Zhang & Yonghong He

  3. Institute of Green Chemistry and Energy, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Le Liu

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Xiaoxia Chen

  5. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Kaijie Ma

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Zhang, P., Liu, L., He, Y. et al. A Waveguide-Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Using an Au-MgF2-Au Structure. Plasmonics 14, 187–195 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-018-0792-5

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