Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 1, Issue 5, Pages 437-443Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ph5000117
Keywords
broadband sensing; infrared spectroscopy; graphene plasmons; plasmonic sensing
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Funding
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/H046887/1]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61161007, 61261002]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2013M531989]
- EPSRC [EP/H046887/1, EP/K016407/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K016407/1, EP/H046887/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Sensing is to date one of the most successful applications of surface plasmons thanks to the exceptional field amplification and sensitivity of these modes in metallic nanostructures. Here we introduce a promising detection scheme based on the propagation of strongly confined antibonding plasmons supported by graphene sandwiches. Instead of measuring changes in the refractive index or enhancing a restricted number of molecular absorption lines, the proposed device can recover an extended portion of the infrared spectrum of a molecule. Moreover, the extreme compression of light in graphene means that a diluted 2 nm-thick analyte can cause up to 3 dB intensity changes. The broadband capability and sensitivity also imply that one can easily identify different chemicals in a mixture and extract their respective concentration. We conclude by presenting a simple experimental setup based on this mechanism for infrared spectroscopy that could become a cheap Fourier transform infrared accessory and an alternative to crystal-based attenuated total reflection spectroscopy.
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