Abstract
In this paper, a brand-novel surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor structure built by bimetallic layers (Ag, \({\text{Al}}_{{2}} {\text{O}}_{{3}}\)), zinc oxide (ZnO), and black phosphorus (BP) is proposed. The incident light wave wavelength is 633 nm. The angular sensitivity (S), detection accuracy (DA), the figure of merit (FoM), and electric field strength of the proposed construction and other constructions are numerically investigated and compared. To optimize the sensor’s performance, the influence of the thickness of each layer on the proposed construction’s performance was simulated. The proposed construction utilizes the large surface-to-volume ratio of ZnO along with the high biomolecule adsorption of BP for sensing performance improvement. It is found that the proposed sensing structure’s highest sensitivity of 400 °/RIU, that is 294.75% higher than the conventional silver-based sensor. This sensing structure might provide ideas for the construction of precision detection suited SPR sensors.
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This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61771419), Hebei Province Natural Science Foundation (F2017203220) and Hebei Province Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate (CXZZSS2020051).
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Wang, S., Zhang, J., Liu, N. et al. Sensitivity Improvement of Bimetallic Layer-Based SPR Biosensor Using ZnO and Black Phosphorus. Plasmonics 18, 1873–1883 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-01889-8
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