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Numerical optimization of refractive index sensors based on diffraction gratings with high aspect ratio in terahertz range. / Kameshkov, Oleg; Gerasimov, Vasily; Knyazev, Boris.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical optimization of refractive index sensors based on diffraction gratings with high aspect ratio in terahertz range
AU - Kameshkov, Oleg
AU - Gerasimov, Vasily
AU - Knyazev, Boris
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Terahertz surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have been regarded as a promising technology in biomedicine due to their real-time, label-free, and ultrasensitive monitoring features. Different authors have suggested a lot of SPR sensors, including those based on 2D and 3D metamate-rials, subwavelength gratings, graphene, and graphene nanotube, as well as others. However, one of the traditional approaches to realize high sensitivity SPR sensors based on metal diffraction gratings has been studied poorly in the terahertz frequency range. In this article, a linear metal rectangular diffraction grating with high aspect ratio is studied. The influence of the grating structure parameters on the sensor sensitivity is simulated. Effects arising from different ratios of depth and width were discovered and explained. The results show that the sensitivity can be increased to 2.26 THz/RIU when the refractive index range of the gas to measure is between 1 and 1.002 with the resolution 5 × 10−5 RIU.
AB - Terahertz surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have been regarded as a promising technology in biomedicine due to their real-time, label-free, and ultrasensitive monitoring features. Different authors have suggested a lot of SPR sensors, including those based on 2D and 3D metamate-rials, subwavelength gratings, graphene, and graphene nanotube, as well as others. However, one of the traditional approaches to realize high sensitivity SPR sensors based on metal diffraction gratings has been studied poorly in the terahertz frequency range. In this article, a linear metal rectangular diffraction grating with high aspect ratio is studied. The influence of the grating structure parameters on the sensor sensitivity is simulated. Effects arising from different ratios of depth and width were discovered and explained. The results show that the sensitivity can be increased to 2.26 THz/RIU when the refractive index range of the gas to measure is between 1 and 1.002 with the resolution 5 × 10−5 RIU.
KW - Linear diffraction gratings
KW - Refractive index sensing
KW - Surface plasmon resonance
KW - Terahertz range
KW - Surface Plasmon Resonance
KW - Graphite
KW - Refractometry
KW - Equipment Design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121756047&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/s22010172
DO - 10.3390/s22010172
M3 - Article
C2 - 35009715
AN - SCOPUS:85121756047
VL - 22
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
SN - 1424-3210
IS - 1
M1 - 172
ER -
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