Surface plasmon resonance transducers with membrane structure toward gas-sensing applications

Takahiro Shimodaira; Shogo Suzuki; Yoshiki Aizawa; Yasufumi Iimura; Hiromasa Shimizu

doi:10.1117/12.2506852

1 February 2019 Surface plasmon resonance transducers with membrane structure toward gas-sensing applications

Takahiro Shimodaira, Shogo Suzuki, Yoshiki Aizawa, Yasufumi Iimura, Hiromasa Shimizu

Proceedings Volume 10926, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XVI; 1092628 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506852
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We proposed and demonstrated a new modulation scheme of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor for higher sensitivity. We fabricated novel SPR transducers with wedge membrane structure on the Au thin film (Otto configuration) for gas sensing application. The transducers are composed of SiO₂ / gas flowing layer / Au trilayers, fabricated by wafer bonding of SiO₂ substrate on Au thin film on Si substrate via the ball spacers to define the thickness (t) of the gas flowing layer. There is variation of t within the sample owing to the inhomogeneous bonding force during the adhesion process, leading to variation of t and modulating the SPR within the single transducer. The SPR was measured with attenuated total reflection with a glass prism. We measured SPR for different positions having different t by images detected by a camera with focusing and objective lenses. Asymmetric intensity distributions in the images were fitted with the simulated reflectivity, meaning that the obtained images correspond to the SPR near the cut-off condition in Otto configuration. We observed the shift of the intensity distribution upon the change of the excitation condition through different t. Based on the new modulation scheme, higher sensitivity is expected through analysis of the observed images.

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Takahiro Shimodaira, Shogo Suzuki, Yoshiki Aizawa, Yasufumi Iimura, and Hiromasa Shimizu "Surface plasmon resonance transducers with membrane structure toward gas-sensing applications", Proc. SPIE 10926, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XVI, 1092628 (1 February 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506852

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