基于双电介质层的棱镜表面等离子共振传感的研究

为了提高表面等离子共振系统的分辨率,提出了一种五层结构的表面等离子共振效应的激励模型:棱镜基底-银膜-电介质层1-电介质层2-待测介质.采用薄膜光学和波导理论,讨论了银和双电介质层复合而成的共振薄膜对表面等离子共振效应的激励机理与调制特性的作用.借助有限元分析方法,数值模拟得到双电介质表面等离子共振激励模型的共振光谱.分析结果表明,当待测介质折射率相同时,双电介质表面等离子共振激励模型共振光谱的半峰宽约为传统棱镜表面等离子体共振的0.1倍,理论计算得到双电介质表面等离子共振激励模型的系统分辨率相较于传统棱镜表面提高了5.4倍.以乙二醇溶液为待测样本,分析得到传感器的灵敏度约为7.2°/RIU,品质因数约为465,证明了该结构设计的可行性,为设计高分辨率和高品质因数的传感系统提供了理论参考.     

表面等离子共振现象的新应用——微弱磁场的测量

提出了一种新的表面等离子体共振传感器, 它包含三层结构: 棱镜、金属薄膜及二能级介质. 通过理论分析发现, 与通常表面等离子体共振系统不同, 这一物理系统中同时存在两种共振效应 (表面等离子体共振和能级间量子跃迁的共振效应), 它们共同作用的结果导致一系列新的物理现象, 其中一个令人感兴趣的现象是入射光的反射率对外场导致的微小能级移动十分敏感 (这一现象是通常的表面等离子体共振系统所不具有的). 由于能级移动依赖于外场, 所以最终入射光的反射率对外场具有灵敏的响应. 本文以外磁场导致能级移动的情况进行了理论计算, 结果表明, 这种表面等离子体共振系统的入射光的反射率对外加磁场极其敏感. 这一特性可以用来测量物质表面附近的微弱磁场, 有可能发展成为一种新型检测技术.     

基于表面等离子体共振的新型超宽带微结构光纤传感器研究

基于表面等离子体共振的微结构光纤传感器具有高灵敏、免标记和实时监控等优点.如今,由于此类传感器广泛应用于食品安全控制、环境检测、生物分子分析物检测等诸多领域而受到大量研究.然而,目前所报道的绝大多数此类传感器只能应用于可见光或近中红外传感.因此,对可应用于中红外传感的表面等离子体共振微结构光纤传感器的研究是一项极具挑战性的工作.基于此,本文设计了一种可以工作在近红外和中红外区域的新型高灵敏表面等离子体共振微结构光纤传感器.传感器采用双芯单样品通道结构,该结构不仅可以消除相邻样品通道间的相互干扰和提高传感器的信噪比,还可以在超宽带波长范围内实现高灵敏检测.采用全矢量有限元法对其传感特性进行了系统的研究,研究结果表明:当待测样品折射率分布在1.423—1.513范围内时,传感器不仅可以在1.548—2.796μm的超宽带波长范围内进行工作,而且其平均灵敏度高达13964 nm/RIU.此外,传感器的最高波长灵敏度和折射率分辨率分别为17900 nm/RIU,5.59×10^–7 RIU.     

双对称性破缺Au-TiO_2-Ag三层纳米杯的LSPR特性研究

设计了一种双对称性破缺Au-TiO_2-Ag三层纳米杯结构,采用有限元方法分析了其局域表面等离子体共振(Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance,LSPR)特性,并采用等离激元杂化理论对LSPR现象进行理论分析。分别仿真了入射光偏振态、核壳结构参数和外界介质折射率对Au-TiO_2-Ag三层纳米杯消光光谱的影响。研究结果表明,当入射光偏振方向垂直于对称轴方向时,可将反对称横向耦合模式ω-⊥〉1的共振峰波长调谐至近红外区域1100nm附近,同时该模式共振波长随外界介质折射率的增大产生红移,这一特性可在生物传感领域得到广泛的应用。     

表面等离子体波传感器角度敏感特性的研究

研究了表面等离子体波共振(SPR)光谱对入射光角度变化的敏感特性,提出了对共振波长和共振强度进行双参数检测的方法。理论分析和实验表明,共振波长和共振强度同时对入射角度的微小改变非常敏感,且相互之间具有良好的对应关系。通过选择合适的棱镜、金属薄膜、调制层等结构参数,能有效地调整角度敏感的范围和灵敏度。     

纳米金表面修饰与表面等离子体共振传感器的相互作用研究

为了分析纳米金表面修饰对表面等离子体共振(SPR)的放大作用,以及其对传感器本身的影响,首先,基于色散介质的吸收理论,通过建立波长型SPR生物传感器四层膜结构的数学模型,理论分析了传感器表面所吸附纳米金对传感器的影响:纳米金的表面修饰,改变了表面等离子体传感器中棱镜表面各介质层内电磁场的能量分布,削弱了金属膜在共振吸收中的作用,从而使SPR曲线的半波宽度增加,最小反射系数增大,金膜的最优膜厚度也随之改变.其次,通过不同厚度的金膜外吸附纳米金的对比试验,验证了此理论.金膜厚45nm、表面修饰10nm纳米金颗 关键词： 表面等离子体共振 生物传感器 纳米金 金属膜     

石墨烯覆盖铝纳米光栅表面等离激元共振光谱及传感特性

表面等离激元共振技术具有无需标记、灵敏度高、实时检测等优点,已广泛应用于生物医疗、环境监测及食品安全等领域。相对于传统贵金属材料表面等离激元共振传感器而言,铝表面等离激元共振传感器具有价格低廉、共振光谱带宽小等优点,已逐渐成为了该领域的研究热点。针对铝材料存在与生物分子兼容性差、易氧化等缺点,利用石墨烯化学稳定性好、比表面积大、抗氧化能力强、生物兼容性好等独特优势,将其作为与被测分子直接接触的传感层,提出了一种石墨烯覆盖铝纳米光栅的表面等离激元共振传感器。首先,基于多物理场有限元仿真软件建立了该传感器的物理模型,分别分析了石墨烯层数和铝光栅结构参数(占空比、高度、周期)对传感器共振光谱的影响。结果表明,石墨烯与铝光栅的复合有效增强了入射光波与传感器的相互作用,采用单层石墨烯与铝光栅复合时,共振峰具有最窄的光谱带宽。当铝纳米光栅结构Λ=600 nm,H=40 nm,η=70%时,光谱反射率为零。进一步分析了结构优化后的传感器的传感特性。结果表明,单层石墨烯覆盖铝纳米光栅传感器具有最高的品质因数24.5 RIU-1,其灵敏度高达626 nm·RIU-1。该传感器具有探测精度高、分子兼容性好等优点,能为生化分析、环境监测和食品安全等领域提供一个新的绿色传感平台。     

基于偏振分光棱镜的表面等离子体波传感系统

常规棱镜表面等离子体共振(SPR)传感器检测系统共振波谷浅且谷底平坦,从而导致共振波长不易确定。在常规棱镜SPR传感器系统基础上,加入偏振分光棱镜(PBS),构建了一种新型棱镜SPR传感器系统。对PBS的分光带宽展宽进行了研究,提出了基于膜系设计的展宽方法。在无水乙醇检测的实验中,滤除s偏振光后,共振波谷谷底曲率半径由86.2394减小到39.3990,近似减少为滤除s偏振光之前的1/2,这与理论分析相吻合。采用常规和新型棱镜SPR检测系统分别对折射率在1.32~1.39内的6种液体进行了测量,分辨率从1.62×10-4提高到1.55×10-4。该系统能较好地滤除s偏振光,使得共振波谷更加尖锐,从而提高共振光谱的检测精度。     

契形结构光纤表面等离子体共振传感器研究

提出了一种契形端面结构的光纤表面等离子体共振(SPR)传感器激励模型. 采用时域有限差分法对契形SPR波导的共振模型进行数值模拟, 通过在光纤出射端抛磨契形角度并进行敏感膜修饰, 制出具有契形端面结构的类Kretschmann微棱镜式光纤SPR传感器, 实现激发SPR的光波调制.结果表明, 在1.3330–1.4215折射率范围内, 制备的契形光纤SPR传感器相对于常规光纤SPR传感器, 其平均灵敏度提高了近1–6倍, 1倍和6倍分别出现在小角度结构(15° 契形) 传感器和大角度结构(60°契形) 传感器, 且仍保持 10^-5 等级的分辨率. 该类型结构的传感器具有契形端面激励模式, 设计灵活性高、制备工艺简单、可微量检测样本等优点, 能够很好地适应于不同环境和测量条件的实际生化检测、环境监测需求. 关键词： 光纤传感器 表面等离子体共振 契形端面结构 折射率灵敏度     

基于金属光栅实现石墨烯三通道光吸收增强

为了增强单层石墨烯在可见光和近红外波段的吸收效率并实现多通道光吸收.本文利用石墨烯-金属光栅-介质层-金属衬底混合结构在λ_1=0.553μm、λ_2=0.769μm、λ_3=1.130μm三通道上提高了石墨烯吸收效率,石墨烯吸收效率最高可达41%.对3个光吸收增强通道的磁场分布分析可得它们分别源于表面等离子体激元共振、法布里-帕罗干涉腔共振、磁激元共振.经过模拟分析可知,通过调节金属光栅宽度、介质层厚度可以调谐混合结构的共振峰波长和吸收效率,而石墨烯化学势仅能对共振峰λ_3的吸收效率有影响.最后优化结构参数,在最优结构参数下混合结构在3个光吸收增强通道的光吸收效率可达0.97以上,这可以作为超材料吸收器.     

Sensitivity enhancement of graphene coated surface plasmon resonance biosensor

In this paper, a highly sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensor is presented using angular interrogation. Due to low sensitivity of conventional biosensor, graphene/two-dimensional transition metal are used in surface plasmon resonance biosensor to improve the sensitivity. Here, we propose a seven layer model of biosensor which shows by incorporating silicon layer in addition of transition metal dichalcogenides MoS₂ and graphene, the sensitivity of the proposed SPR biosensor can be greatly enhanced than the conventional gold film SPR sensors. It is observed that the highest sensitivity can be obtained by optimizing the structure with 8 nm thickness of silicon layer, one layer of MoS₂ and one layer of graphene. The highest sensitivity of our proposed sensor is 210°/RIU.     

基于适配体-表面等离子共振的生物传感技术及应用

适配体以其合成、修饰、固定等方面的优势,在生物分子识别领域有广泛的应用。基于表面等离子共振的传感技术具有非标记、无需前处理、实时监测等优点。适配体与表面等离子共振相结合研制的生物传感器在生物传感领域具有重要的应用价值,本文综述了基于适配体-表面等离子共振的生物传感技术及应用。     

Surface plasmon resonance sensor based on diffraction grating with high sensitivity and high resolution

A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor based on diffraction grating with high sensitivity and high resolution is proposed. The sensitivity of grating coupled SPR sensor based on angular interrogation is enhanced by replacing +1st diffraction order of metallic grating with −1st diffraction order to excite the surface plasmon. To improve the resolution of grating-based SPR sensor, aluminum is used as an SPR-active metal. The reflectivity dip of the Al-based sensor is sharper than an Au-based one, which is the mostly widely used as SPR-active metal. And 3-nm-thick gold film is deposited on the grating surface in order to protect the Al layer from getting oxidized. Numerical simulations show that the sensor not only has high sensitivity and high resolution, but also exhibits good linearity.     

波长调制型表面等离子体共振的传感特性研究

表面等离子体共振(SPR)光学传感器能实现生物医学的快速、 无标记、 高精度检测,是生物化学分析的重要方法。 研制了基于波长调制型的Kretschmann结构表面等离子体共振(SPR)生物传感系统,研究了在体溶液传感方式下的传感性能。 利用不同浓度的乙醇和乙二醇溶液进行体溶液传感测试。 实验结果表明,在折射率低时共振波长对折射率变化响应的灵敏度低,但响应的线性度高;随着折射率增大,共振波长对折射率的响应变化的灵敏度提高。 在1.407 0～1.430 RIU折射率范围内,灵敏度高达11 487 nm·RIU-1。 传感器的共振波长的稳定性为0.213 8 nm,可分辨最小折射率趋近10-6 RIU。 所研制的波长调制型表面等离子共振传感器操作简单、 灵敏度高、 检测范围大,可实现浓度极低生物标记物的有效检测,在化学、 生物传感领域有重要的应用。     

Enhancement of the resolution of surface plasmon resonance biosensors by control of the size and distribution of nanoparticles

A new resolution-enhanced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor offers a tenfold improvement in resolution compared with conventional SPR biosensors in the detection of the surface coverage of biomaterials. The proposed optical biosensor, based on the attenuated total-reflection method, excites both the surface plasmons and particle plasmons to enhance the local electromagnetic field by control of the size and volume fraction of embedded Au nanoparticles to increase the resolution of the device. The SPR biosensor design is based on the Maxwell-Garnett model and the Fresnel equations, and the device is fabricated with a cosputtering deposition system.     

Real time detection of antibody-antigen interaction using a laser scanning confocal imaging-surface plasmon resonance system

A laser scanning confocal imaging-surface plasmon resonance (LSCI-SPR) instrument integrated with a wavelength-dependent surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and a laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) is built to detect the bonding process of human IgG and fluorescent-labeled affinity purified antibodies in real time. The shifts of resonant wavelength at different reaction time stages are obtained by SPR, corresponding well with the changes of the fluorescence intensity collected by using LSCM. The instrument shows the merits of the combination and complementation of the SPR and LSCM, with such advantages as quantificational analysis, high spatial resolution and real time monitor, which are of great importance for practical applications in biosensor and life science.     

Sensitivity enhancement based on application of multi-pass interferometry in phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensor

A novel design of multi-pass surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor with differential phase interrogation based on multi-pass interferometry is presented. This new configuration provides an intrinsic phase amplification effect of over twofold by placing the SPR sensor head in a signal arm of the interferometer so that the interrogating optical beam will traverse the sensor surface infinite number of times. Experimental interferometers based on the Michelson and Fabry–Perot configurations have been employed to experimentally verify this amplification effect when they were compared with Mach–Zehnder configuration, results obtained from salt–water mixtures, antibody–antigen, and protein–DNA binding reaction confirmed the expected phase measurement enhancement, thus leading to the possibility of direct detection of small sized bio-molecules using SPR.     

Focused cylindrical vector beam assisted microscopic pSPR biosensor with an ultra wide dynamic range

A novel phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance (pSPR) biosensor based on differential phase measurement between two cylindrical vector beams, namely radially polarized and azmuthally polarized beams, is proposed and studied in an inverted microscope. Different from a fixed angle or a relatively small angular range for SPR excitation in the attenuated total reflection (ATR) configuration, the signal beam focused by a total internal reflection fluorescence microscopic objective contains the entire angular range from 0 to the maximum angle given by the numerical aperture, leading to a dynamic range of 0.41 RIU which is over seven times wider than the best result of the ATR pSPR sensor. Moreover, with the technique of differential phase measurement between radial and azimuthal polarizations employed in our configuration, high sensitivity of ±9.05×10(-8) refractive index unit/1 deg can simultaneously be achieved in principle. The proposed technique maintains the unique advantages in terms of securing high imaging resolution and sensitivity with an ultra-wide dynamic range simultaneously.     

Direct determination of the refractive index and thickness of a biolayer based on coupled waveguide-surface plasmon resonance mode

A coupled waveguide-surface plasmon resonance (CWSPR) biosensor based on the Kretschmann configuration is developed. The CWSPR couples the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) mode and the waveguide mode and generates two sharp resonance dips in the reflectivity spectrum. The proposed biosensor not only retains the same sensing sensitivity as that of a conventional SPR device but also yields sharper dips in the reflectivity spectrum and therefore provides an improved measurement precision. The two reflectivity spectrum dips enable the refractive indices and thicknesses of both the self-assembled monolayer and a layer of human serum albumin absorbed dynamically on the sensing surface to be determined directly on a real-time basis. The CWSPR biosensor provides the capability to detect the biomolecular conformational changes that occur in biomolecular kinetic interactions.