PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-06-10DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01901-1
Ehsan Koushki, Ali Asghar Mowlavi, Seyed Taha Hoseini
{"title":"Application of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles in Spectral Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2: A Numerical Study","authors":"Ehsan Koushki, Ali Asghar Mowlavi, Seyed Taha Hoseini","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01901-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01901-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Severe respiratory syndrome COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak has became the most important global health issue, and simultaneous efforts to fast and low-cost diagnosis of this virus were performed by researchers. One of the most usual tests was colorimetric methods based on the change of color of gold nanoparticles in the presence of viral antibodies, antigens, and other biological agents. This spectral change can be due to the aggregation of the particles or the shift of localized surface plasmon resonance due to the electrical interactions of surface agents. It is known that surface agents could easily shift the absorption peak of metallic nanocolloids which is attributed to the localized surface plasmon resonance. Experimental diagnosis assays for colorimetric detection of SARS-CoV-2 using Au NPs were reviewed, and the shift of absorption peak was studied from the viewpoint of numerical analysis. Using the numerical method, the refractive index and real and imaginary parts of the effective relative permittivity of the viral biological shell around Au NPs were obtained. This model gives a quantitative description of colorimetric assays of the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using Au NPs.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 5","pages":"1847 - 1855"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01901-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9706148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01878-x
Seyed Morteza Ebadi, Shiva Khani
{"title":"Highly-Miniaturized Nano-Plasmonic Filters Based on Stepped Impedance Resonators with Tunable Cut-Off Wavelengths","authors":"Seyed Morteza Ebadi, Shiva Khani","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01878-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01878-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents the design and numerical investigation of tunable, ultra-compact, and highly-efficient plasmonic filters based on stepped impedance resonators (SIRs). The proposed devices are realized in metal–insulator-metal (MIM) plasmonic waveguide systems and exhibit more degrees of freedom and high flexibility to design resonator-based devices, thanks to the SIRs. The principle of conventional SIRs is discussed in terms of equivalent circuit model and characteristic impedance. Among the three proposed plasmonic filters, one of them acts as a short-wavelength, while the other two nanostructures work as long-wavelength cut-off filters at near-infrared region (NIR) and telecom wavelengths. Simulation results are carried out by a finite element method (FEM)-based solver and indicate that the cut-off wavelengths of the proposed resonators found to be at 1187?nm, 1265?nm, and 999?nm, respectively, can be easily tuned by modulating their structural parameters. In addition to the mentioned remarkable properties of the designed structures including the size which are found to be 500?nm?×?310?nm, 350?nm?×?285?nm, and 210?nm?×?195?nm, respectively, the simple structures of the proposed topologies facilitate their fabrication process. Therefore, the suggested devices can contribute to the development of miniaturized, tunable, and efficient optical components for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) applications and in optical wireless communication systems.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1607 - 1618"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01878-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4875717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01879-w
Xiao Lin Wang, Lu Zhu, Yuan Yuan Liu
{"title":"Broadband Wide-Angle LIWR Perfect Absorber with Double Dielectric Layer","authors":"Xiao Lin Wang, Lu Zhu, Yuan Yuan Liu","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01879-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01879-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Abstract\u0000</h2><div><p>The wide-bandwidth infrared absorbers of metamaterials have a wide range of applications in thermal emission and imaging. But achieving full window coverage and perfect absorbance in the long-wave infrared band remains a challenge. In order to realize this goal, firstly using impedance matching and equivalent circuits designed a Ti/GaAs/Ti structure. This absorber can achieve a mean absorption of more than 93% in the 8?~?13?μm range. To further improve the absorbance and bandwidth, a stacked metamaterial bi-dielectric perfect absorber based on Ti/GaAs/Ti is then proposed, which has a mean absorbance of up to 96.59% with polarization independence in the 8?~?15?μm band range. It can be seen that the absorption of over 90% (93.8% in TM mode and 91.4% in TE mode) is still maintained as the angle of incidence is increased to 50°. Perfectly absorbed of Broadband is attained through the mixed effect of the coupled PSPR, LSPR, and the intrinsic absorption of the Si<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>.\u0000</p></div></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1593 - 1605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4763187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01849-2
Zhengzhou Ma, Ping Tang, Jiancai Xue, Jinyun Zhou
{"title":"Enhancing Photoresponse of GaAs-Based Photodetector by Plasmon Grating Structures","authors":"Zhengzhou Ma, Ping Tang, Jiancai Xue, Jinyun Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01849-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01849-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nanostructured metal–semiconductor-metal photodetectors (MSM-PDs) can assist in future high-speed communication devices for achieving high responsivity characteristics. However, such devices suffer from low responsivity due to low absorption, and the large band gap limits its detection range. Herein, we propose a GaAs-based photodetector with enhanced photoresponse by plasmonic Au-GaAs grating structure. The design of a grating structure on the surface of n-GaAs can excite a plasmon mode to enhance the photoelectric performance of photodetectors. Consequently, under 795?nm incident light irradiation, the grating hybrid detector exhibits a nearly 4.2-fold increase in photocurrent compared to the bare GaAs device. The enhanced absorption can be up to 99% and a specific responsivity of 240?mA/W is realized. These results can thus provide a potential scheme to fabricate high-performance GaAs detector for numerous applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1571 - 1579"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01849-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4729915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Near- and Mid- Infrared Quintuple-Band Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorber","authors":"Chung-Ting Chou Chao, Sy-Hann Chen, Hung Ji Huang, Yuan-Fong Chou Chau","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01881-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01881-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In nanophotonic devices, the absorption of electromagnetic waves plays a critical role. Attempting to achieve narrowband absorption with multiple operating wavelengths, particularly in the near- and mid-infrared regions, is still a challenging endeavor. In this study, we developed a plasmonic metamaterial absorber (PMA) with a quintuple-band design. This PMA uses a periodic structure consisting of a dielectric layer sandwiched between a metallic nanobar array and a thin Ag film. The PMA can operate in both the near-infrared and mid-infrared regions. The absorptance of the proposed PMA for modes 1–5 is 98.02%, 99.47% 98.02%, 99.47%, and 96.09%, respectively. The high absorptance is due to hybridization of localized gap, cavity and surface plasmon resonance. This phenomenon can be explained by an inductance and capacitance circuit model. We also investigated the effects of structure parameters on the absorptance spectrum, which will provide valuable guidance for designing high-performance PMA.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1581 - 1591"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01881-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4732972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Strips Using Colloidal Ink of Gold-silver Alloyed Nanoparticles","authors":"Honghao Tian, Youjian Qin, Hongmei Liu, Tian Li, Yuting Li, Xiaohui Fang, Xinping Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01872-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01872-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been used for trace detection at the single-molecule level. The low-cost preparation of high-performance test strips has enabled the development of SERS techniques. In this study, oil-dispersible metal or alloy nanoparticles prepared by the Brust-Schiffrin method were used as \"inks\" in a ballpoint pen to handwrite SERS test strips on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes. Because of the good PTFE lipophilicity, the flexible substrates had good uniformity. The large laser damage threshold of the PTFE membrane also enabled increased laser powers for SERS testing. The Au and Ag alloy nanoparticle inks exhibited increased performance with larger proportions of Ag. The Au<sub>1</sub>Ag<sub>8</sub> nanoparticles had the best properties, and those strips could detect 10<sup>-11</sup>-M Rhodamine 6G dyes in a 10-μL volume with an enhancement factor of 5.4×10<sup>8</sup>. The SERS strips were used to demonstrate detection of malachite green, the use of which is prohibited in aquaculture and fish tanks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1553 - 1559"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4695455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra-Wideband RCS Reduction Achieved by a Coding Phase Gradient Metasurface","authors":"Bao-qin Lin, Wen-zhun Huang, Jian-xin Guo, Yan-Wen Wang, Bai-gang Huang, Rui Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01876-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01876-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, to achieve ultra-wideband radar cross section (RCS) reduction, a coding phase gradient metasurface (CPGM) is proposed by using Pancharatnam-Berry (P-B) phase. The CPGM is composed of eight types of CPGM elements, and a series of phase gradients with different directions or starting-values will be introduced in these types of CPGM elements under the same EM-wave incidence, so it can not only achieve anomalous reflection to reduce its specular RCS but also reduce the maximum bi-static RCS due to phase cancelation. The simulation results demonstrate that the CPGM has an excellent performance in RCS reduction, compared with a pure metallic plate with the same size, its specular RCS under normal incidence with arbitrary polarization can be reduced more than 10?dB in the ultra-wide frequency band of 8.8–34.8?GHz with a relative bandwidth of 119.3%, and its maximum bi-static RCS can also be reduced effectively in the ultra-wide frequency band; moreover, when the incident angle is increased to 45°, the RCS reduction can still be achieved in an ultra-wide frequency band. Finally, an effective experimental verification is carried out.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1561 - 1569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4696745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01864-3
Ciyong Gu, Delong Meng, Xiaolei Yu, Lin Li, Zhimin Zhao
{"title":"Highly Sensitive and Flexible GFF/Au/AgNPs SERS Substrate and Its Application for Rapid Hazardous Residues Detection on Food","authors":"Ciyong Gu, Delong Meng, Xiaolei Yu, Lin Li, Zhimin Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01864-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01864-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we have developed a highly sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate consisting of gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoparticles (NPs) loaded on glass fiber filter paper (GFF) by a two-step process of magnetron sputtering and sessile drop method. To test the SERS properties of the substrate, crystal violet (CV) was selected as the Raman probes. The influence of the amounts of NPs on the SERS signals was studied using field-emission scanning electron microscopy and theoretical methods. It is demonstrated that the hybrid structure of optimal GFF/Au/AgNPs has a much stronger SERS enhancement than that of GFF substrate coated only with AuNPs, which can provide a SERS enhancement factor (EF) of 3.52?×?10<sup>8</sup>, and the limit of detection is down to 10<sup>?14</sup>?M for CV. Moreover, the Raman signal of the CV on the GFF/Au/Ag substrate presented good homogeneity, reproducibility and stability, also reproduce the SERS spectra after 15?days. Furthermore, the GFF/Au/AgNPs substrate was applied for the rapid on-site testing and identification of malachite green (MG) residual on contaminated fish scale, and the limit of detection was approximately 10<sup>?7</sup>?M. Flexible GFF substrate with Au/Ag bimetallic hybrid structure has great potential in rapid sampling of hazardous ingredients on real samples and in SERS applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1541 - 1552"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4657301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01858-1
Somia Abd-Elnabi, Hagar M. Ali
{"title":"Splitting of the Effective Rabi Frequencies for the Coherent Plasmonic Fields in the Semiconductor Quantum Dot–Metal Nanospheres Hybrids","authors":"Somia Abd-Elnabi, Hagar M. Ali","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01858-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01858-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Splitting of the effective Rabi frequencies for plasmonic fields when the interaction occurs between semiconductor quantum dot and three metallic nanospheres in the presence of three electromagnetic fields is examined. We study theoretically the role of the dipole–dipole interactions in creating many Multipoles. Then, we split the effective Rabi frequencies into three parts according to the quantitative Multipoles of the plasmonic fields. The density matrix equations are derived for the description of the optical properties of the SQD-MNPs nanosystem. We investigate the influence of each part of the effective Rabi frequencies and compare them with each other individually. The three parts of the effective Rabi frequency for the probe field are affected by changing the angles, the strong probe field and other parameters for the hybrid system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1529 - 1539"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01858-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4550164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlasmonicsPub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1007/s11468-023-01875-0
A. H. M. Iftekharul Ferdous, Benjir Newaz Sathi, Md. Shahareaj Islam, Diponkar Kundu, Twana Mohammed Kak Anwer, Shaik Hasane Ahammad, Md. Amzad Hossain, Mahmoud M. A. Eid, Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed
{"title":"A Highly Sensitive Terahertz Waveguide Plasmonic Sensor for Ethanol Sensing","authors":"A. H. M. Iftekharul Ferdous, Benjir Newaz Sathi, Md. Shahareaj Islam, Diponkar Kundu, Twana Mohammed Kak Anwer, Shaik Hasane Ahammad, Md. Amzad Hossain, Mahmoud M. A. Eid, Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed","doi":"10.1007/s11468-023-01875-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11468-023-01875-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper proposes and numerically investigates a spider-web-like cladding photonic crystal fiber with a hexagonal hollow core–based ethanol sensor utilizing terahertz (THz) signal. The finite element method (FEM) technique is applied to examine sensing and guiding characteristics of this sensor by using the COMSOL Multiphysics software. The sensor outperformed other ongoing studies by achieving a high relative sensitivity of 97.09% and an incredibly low confinement loss of 3.68?×?10<sup>?12</sup>?dB/m at the optimal frequency. In addition, the sensor has a large effective area of 6.458?×?10<sup>?08</sup> m<sup>2</sup> and spot size with a tiny effective material loss of 0.0051?cm<sup>?1</sup>. This study represents the huge hexagonal core and a set of rectangular air holes in spider-shaped cladding to simplify manufacture. Future applications for identifying ethanol may greatly benefit from its exceptional sensitivity and guiding qualities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":736,"journal":{"name":"Plasmonics","volume":"18 4","pages":"1511 - 1519"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11468-023-01875-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4504209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}