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Improving the Performance of an SPR Biosensor Using Long-Range Surface Plasmon of Ga-Doped Zinc Oxide
Banxian Ruan1,2, Qi You3,4, Jiaqi Zhu5,6
1Engineering Technology Research Center for 2D Material Information Function Devices and Systems of Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China. 2161190229@email.szu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have appeared in the past few years as potential plasmonic materials for the development of optical devices in the near infrared regime (NIR). However, the performance of biosensors with TCOs has been limited in sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM). To improve the performance of the biosensors with TCOs, a biosensor based on long-range surface plasmon with Ga-doped zinc oxide (GZO) is proposed. It is shown that a larger FOM with a 2~7 times enhancement compared to the traditional surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) sensor and higher detection accuracy (DA) can be realized in our proposed sensor compared with the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor with GZO. Therefore, this sensor can be used to detect biological activity or chemical reactions in the near infrared region.
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