Title
Compact Surface Plasmon Resonance System with Au/Si Schottky Barrier.
Abstract
Ethanol concentration was quantified by the use of a compact surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, which electrically detects hot electrons via a Schottky barrier. Although it is well known that SPR can be used as bio/chemical sensors, implementation is not necessarily practical, due to the size and cost impediments associated with a system with variable wavelength or angle of incidence. However, scanning capability is not a prerequisite if the objective is to use SPR in a sensor. It is possible to build a small, inexpensive SPR sensor if the optics have no moving parts and a Schottky barrier is used for electrical current detection in place of a photodetector. This article reports on the design and performance of such a novel SPR sensor, and its application for quantifying ethanol concentration. As the concentration of ethanol is increased, the change in the angle dependence of the SPR current is observed. This change can be understood as a superposition of contributions of SPR coupled with the +3rd- and 3rd-order diffraction. Moreover, real-time monitoring of ethanol concentration was demonstrated using the proposed SPR system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18020399
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
surface plasmon resonance (SPR),Schottky barrier,diffraction grating,chemical sensor
Schottky barrier,Analytical chemistry,Superposition principle,Surface plasmon resonance,Photodetector,Diffraction grating,Engineering,Optoelectronics,Diffraction,Wavelength,Electron
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takuya Tsukagoshi100.68
Yuta Kuroda200.34
Kentaro Noda321.12
Nguyen Binh-Khiem411.36
Tetsuo Kan510.69
Isao Shimoyama623379.58