Improving the Detection Accuracy of an Ag/Au Bimetallic Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor Based on Graphene

Autor: Qi Wang, Shuhua Cao, Xufeng Gao, Xinrui Chen, Dawei Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Chemosensors, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 10 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-9040
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors10010010
Popis: A theoretical study was conducted with the aim of improving the detection accuracy of graphene-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors. We studied the effect of applying a bias voltage to the sensor surface on its detection accuracy. The optimum thicknesses of silver and gold layers in the biosensor of 47 nm and 3 nm, respectively, were determined. Graphene layers deposited on these thin silver and gold films formed a sensor surface system, on which the surface plasmons were excited. The real and imaginary parts of the refractive index of graphene were controlled by the bias voltage. When the chemical potential was increased from 36 meV to 8 eV, the detection accuracy of the sensor was correspondingly increased by 213%.
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