Investigation of CaF2 substrate based plasmonic gas sensor in IR

Abstract

The performance of proposed surface plasmon resonance based methane gas sensor based on Kretschmann configuration in infrared (IR) is discussed. In this structure, calcium fluoride (CaF2) substrate is considered with gold (Au) layer deposited on its base and methane gas is used as a sensing layer. Performance of sensor is analysed in terms of sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM) with various metal layer thicknesses using angular interrogation method.