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Sensitivity-Tunable Terahertz Liquid/Gas Biosensor Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance with Dirac Semimetal

Optics 2023-04-13 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we study the sensitivity-tunable Terahertz (THz) liquid/gas biosensor in a coupling prism-three-dimensional Dirac semimetal (3D DSM) multilayer structure. The high sensitivity of the biosensor originates from the sharp reflected peak caused by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) mode. This structure achieves the tunability of sensitivity due to that the reflectance could be modulated by the Fermi energy of 3D DSM. Besides, it is found that the sensitivity curve depends heavily on the structural parameters of 3D DSM. After parameter optimization, we obtained sensitivity over 100{\deg}/RIU for liquid biosensor. We believe this simple structure provides a reference idea for realizing high sensitivity and tunable biosensor device.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05850,
  title  = {Sensitivity-Tunable Terahertz Liquid/Gas Biosensor Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance with Dirac Semimetal},
  author = {Mengjiao Ren and Chengpeng Ji and Xueyan Tang and Haishan Tian and Leyong Jiang and Xiaoyu Dai and Xinghua Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05850},
  year   = {2023}
}

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17 pages, 3798 figures

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