Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 602-609Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl203325s
Keywords
Plasmonic interferometers; surface plasmon polariton (SPP); nanoslits; nanogrooves; focused ion beam (FIB) milling; biosensor; glucose sensor
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0520651]
- Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award
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In this work, we report the design, fabrication, and characterization of novel biochemical sensors consisting of nanoscale grooves and slits milled in a metal film to form two-arm, three-beam, planar plasmonic interferometers. By integrating thousands of plasmonic interferometers per square millimeter with a microfluidic system, we demonstrate a sensor able to detect physiological concentrations of glucose in water over a broad wavelength range (400-800 nm). A wavelength sensitivity between 370 and 630 nm/RIU (RIU, refractive index units), a relative intensity change between similar to 10(3) and 10(6) %/RIU, and a resolution of similar to 3 x 10(-7) in refractive index change were experimentally measured using typical sensing volumes as low as 20 fL. These results show that multispectral plasmonic interferometry is a promising approach for the development of high-throughput, real-time, and extremely compact biochemical sensors.
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