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Original Articles

Multi-layer Si-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Structure for Absorption Sensing

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Pages 3261-3270 | Received 12 Aug 2003, Accepted 18 Aug 2003, Published online: 25 Oct 2011
 

Abstract

A multi-layer Si-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing structure, consisting of a silicon coupling prism, an intermediate SiO2 layer, a gold film, and a sensing medium, is considered. Such structure makes possible an excitation of two angularly separated surface plasmon polariton modes over both sides of the gold film. We examine the response of the system in the case of the absorption sensing, which is simulated by the gold thickness change. Both calculations and experimental data show that the “internal” plasmon mode over the SiO2/gold interface appears to be at least 4–6 times more sensitive than the “external” one over the gold/sensing medium interface, which is employed in most conventional SPR schemes. The proposed internal plasmon-based absorption sensor structure can be used for studies of optical absorption layers and for colloidal Au-enhanced SPR sensing of ultra-small (bio)-chemical agents.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Professor Ludvik Martinu of the Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada for assistance with experimental facilities. We also acknowledge the financial contribution from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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