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    SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF SPR SENSOR USING NI/ZNO NANOCOMPOSITE ASSISTED WITH GRAPHENE
    (Springer US, 2021-11) Maheswari P; Subanya S; Nisha A; Ravi V; Rajesh KB; Rajan, Jha
    In this paper the performance of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor in modified kretchmann configuration utilizing nanocomposite layer consisting of nickel and ZnO as plasmonic material is analyzed numerically using N-layered transfer matrix method. The performance parameters of proposed sensor are investigated in terms of sensitivity (S), detection accuracy (DA) and quality factor (QF) at the operating wavelength of 633 nm. Parameters such as the influence of refractive index of the coupling prism, the thickness of the nanocomposite layer, the constituent components of the nanocomposite layer and the number of the graphene layers over the nanocomposite layer are investigated and the optimal values are identified to achieve maximum sensitivity. The numerical results shows that upon suitable optimization of the above parameters, the proposed SPR sensor is found to exhibits sensitivity as high as 378.34°/RIU with quality factor (QF) as 39.78/RIU. Compared with existing similar type of SPR sensors, the proposed sensor exhibits higher sensitivity, lower FWHM and better quality factor which would make our design to have more applications in the field of biosensor.
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    SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR USING HYBRID CONFIGURATION OF 2D MATERIALS OVER BIMETALLIC LAYER OF CU–NI
    (Elsevier, 2020-05-15) AlaguVibisha G; Jeeban Kumar Nayak; Maheswari P; Priyadharsini N; Nisha A; Jaroszewicz Z; Rajesh K.B; Rajan Jha
    This Theoretical study aims at improving the sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance biosensor under angular interrogation. We observed that the sensor configuration composed of bimetallic layer of Cu–Ni attached with 2D materials MoS2/WS2/MoSe2/WSe2/graphene enhanced the sensitivity of the sensor to a great extends. The thickness of the bimetallic layers and the number of layers of 2D materials are optimized to achieve maximum sensitivity. Numerical results shows that sensitivity as high as 480∘/RIU is achieved for the well optimized bimetallic configuration consist of 35 nm of Cu and 20 nm of Ni thickness for the analyte refractive indices ranging from 1.33–1.335. Up on functionalizing the metal layers with bimolecular recognizing 2D materials, we noted that configuration with 35 nm of Cu, 15 nm of Ni with monolayer of 2D material WS2 enhanced the sensitivity as high as 426∘/RIU. We expect that such a simple structure and promising results will lead the proposed sensor as a suitable and potential candidate for detecting biomolecules organic elements and other analytes.