A Plasmonic Structure of Fano Resonance in the MIM Waveguide with r-Shaped Resonator for Refractive Index Sensor

A plasmonic structure of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide consisting of a single baffle waveguide and an r-shaped resonator is designed to produce Fano resonance. The finite element method uses the finite element method to analyze the transmission characteristics and magnetic field distributions of the plasmonic waveguide distributions. The simulation results exhibit two Fano resonances that can be achieved by the interference between a continuum state in the baffle waveguide and a discrete state in the r-shaped resonator. The Fano resonances can be simply tuned by changing geometrical parameters of the plasmonic structure. The value variations of geometrical parameters have different effects on sensitivity. Thus, the sensitivity of the plasmonic structure can achieve 1333 nm/RIU, with a figure of merit of 5876. The results of the designed plasmonic structure offer high sensitivity and nano-scale integration, which are beneficial to refractive index sensors, photonic devices at the chip nano-sensors, and biosensors applications.

Glucose Sensor Based on Ellipsometry and Circular Dichroism in Achiral Plasmonic Structure

Various efforts have been made to detect minimum value of glucose in any medium like water or body buffer solutions with high-sensitivity, accurate, and low-cost sensors in order to enhance life style. Therefore, the present study was done to investigate reliability of two-dimensional plasmonic structure by circular dichroism (CD) and ellipsometry tools in different concentrations of glucose. Our results confirmed a dependency of the CD signal on glucose concentrations and also a very good sensitivity based on the phase difference between each polarization in ellipsometry parameters with the help of an achiral plasmonic structure.

Tunable and Enhanced Performance of Graphene-Assisted Plasmonic Sensor with Photonic Spin Hall Effect in Near Infrared: Analysis Founded on Graphene’s Chemical Potential and Components of Light Polarization

In this work, we propose a graphene-assisted plasmonic structure with photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) for sensing applications in near infrared (NIR) with an emphasis on tunable and spin control aspects leading to enhanced performance. We comprehensively investigate PSHE in view of variable chemical doping of graphene monolayer in the structure and manipulation of the spin dependent splitting by considering single and cross polarization states. There is observed a considerable variation in spin shift due to increase in chemical potential or Pauli blocking, which fundamentally controls the light absorption by graphene. Our simulation results reveal that the amplified spin dependent shift is 1.13×104 times higher than the conventional spin dependent shift at 0.436 eV of graphene chemical potential. Further, this structure is utilised for sensing application, and it is observed that graphene-assisted plasmonic based structure possesses significantly greater spin dependent sensitivity (5.53 times), figure of merit (8.56 × 105 times), and extremely finer limit of detection (by a factor of 18.10) are achieved compared to the structure without graphene. The results indicate that chosing the proposed graphene-assisted plasmonic structure with variable chemical potential and light polarization components, an extremely enhanced sensing performance can be achieved. The results are consistent with the physical rationale and are particularly important for potential biosensing applications.

Detection of scorpion venom by optical circular dichroism method

Various efforts have been made to detect minimum amounts of any toxic materials in water or the neurotoxic effect of venom (Odontobuthus Doriae Scorpion) in the human’s blood serum nerve by high-sensitivity, accurate, and low-cost sensors in order to enhance life style. Therefore, the present study was done to investigate reliability of two-dimensional plasmonic structure and circular dichroism (CD) in toxic samples in order to measure and determine venom concentrations and its neurotoxic effect on humans҆ blood serum Neurotransmitter analytes. Our results confirmed dependency of CD signal to neurotoxic effect of venom concentrations and good sensitivity of this sensor with the help of achiral plasmonic structure.