Metasurface with metallic nanoantennas and graphene nanoslits for sensing of protein monolayers and sub-monolayers

Optics Express
Ming Ye, Kenneth B Crozier

Abstract

Biomolecule sensing plays an important role in both fundamental biological studies and medical diagnostic applications. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy presents opportunities for sensing biomolecules as it allows their fingerprints to be determined by directly measuring their absorption spectra. However, the detection of biomolecules at low concentrations is difficult with conventional IR spectroscopy due to signal-to-noise considerations. This has led to recent interest on the use of nanostructured surfaces to boost the signals from biomolecules in a method termed surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy. So far, efforts have largely involved the use of metallic nanoantennas (which produce large field enhancement) or graphene nanostructures (which produce strong field confinement and provide electrical tunability). Here, we propose a nanostructured surface that combines the large field enhancement of metallic nanoantennas with the strong field confinement and electrical tunability of graphene plasmons. Our device consists of an array of plasmonic nanoantennas and graphene nanoslits on a resonant substrate. We perform systematic electromagnetic simulations to quantify the sensing performance of the proposed device and show that it out...Continue Reading

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