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IET Optoelectronics / Volume 14, Issue 5 / p. 256-265

Research Article Free Access

Effect of Perovskite material on performance of surface plasmon resonance


biosensor

Akash Srivastava, Ritwick Das, Yogendra Kumar Prajapati 

First published: 01 October 2020


https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-opt.2019.0122
Citations: 12

Abstract
In this study, we analyze the combined effect of TMD/Perovskite/2D Material on the
performance of SPR biosensor using Kretschman configuration. In order to optimize the
parameters, we compare the results of each material falls in the family of
TMD/Perovskite/2D respectively and finally applied in the proposed sensor. It is observed
that the combined structure based on black phosphorus, a 2D material, Barium Titanate
(BaTiO3) as a Perovskite material and Tungsten disulfide (WS2) as a TMD material
respectively shows excellent performance in terms of a performance parameter of the
sensor. Incident light wavelength is fixed of 633 nm and radiative properties of a multi-
layered structure are calculated by transfer Metrix method. Essential performance
parameters like Figure of Merit (FOM), Sensitivity, Detection Accuracy obtained by using
the standard formula given in the paper. The reported figure of merit (FoM) and
sensitivity are 62.51/RIU and 370. respectively. The results obtained in this paper expect
to prove a significant role in the biosensing field like DNA hybridization as well as for the
application of Perovskite materials in biosensing.

1 Introduction
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) [1] based sensors are used in biochemistry and biology to
detect the molecular concentration, thickness and specific chemical analytes. Surface
plasmons are the quanta of surface charge density oscillation [2] likewise the collective
oscillations in electron density at surface of metal whose propagation is confined to metal
dielectric interface. When a bimolecular solution come in contact with BRE of SPR affinity

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sensor [3], the biomolecules binding to BRE tends to enhance, this results in the significant
change in refractive index of bimolecular solution [4]. This phenomenon gives rise to
relevant change in the propagation constant of surface plasmons, causes shift in resonance
angle of SPR curves [5]. Conventional biosensors are not capable of sensing a small amount
of biomolecules such as DNA, virus or Bacteria while SPR is a potential candidate for
detection of infinitesimal materials with high efficiency. SPR technique is a sensitive device,
able to detect very minor change in refractive index of dielectric materials upto the range of
[6]. An ideal biosensor should have high sensitivity [7], low detection limit,
excellent repeatability and reproducibility [8], stability over time and different physical and
chemical condition, low cost and fast response theoretically and experimentally. Free
electrons of a metal, which can be treated as high density liquid or plasma, can be excited by
applying P polarised electromagnetic waves resulting from plasma oscillation under total
internal reflection condition [9]. This phenomenon gives rise to the evanescent field [10],
which is the strongest at metal dielectric interface, because resonance coupling between
incident radiation and surface plasmon wave takes place. The most frequently used setup
for plasmon excitation is the Kretschman's configuration [11] where resonance is realised by
the maximum dip in SPR angle with respect to the reflection intensity (RI) [12]. Here, we have
taken the angle interrogation case [13] for a fixed wavelength of incident light source. In
present scenario and requirement, the improved value of performance of SPR-based
biosensor is a major issue for research. Theoretical analysis and literature survey show that
SPR biosensor performance can be enhanced by the implementation of two-dimensional
(2D) [13, 14], transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [15], 2D/TMD heterostructures [16, 17]
or Perovskite materials [18, 19] in conventional metal prism-based biosensor. In this study,
we numerically demonstrate the functionality of the SPR based on combined structure of
nano-films [20] of WS2/BaTiO3/Black phosphorus and demonstrate improved sensitivity to
bio sample as compared to conventional SPR sensor based on Ag layer. The sensor
proposed in the manuscript uses nearly guided-wave SPR (NGWSPR) [21, 22] as its basic
architecture can be regarded as a variant of NGWSPR. Basically, NGWSPR is an SPR-sensing
structure with a nano-dielectric film layer between the metal film and the sensing medium,
which exhibits 3–4 times better sensitivity compared to conventional SPR sensor. Its nano-
dielectric film layer plays a key role, and its dielectric constant is highly correlated with the
extreme value of sensitivity. The higher the real part of the dielectric constant, the higher is
the extreme value of the sensitivity, while the imaginary part makes it lower. Its thickness
can fine-tune the measurement range of the refractive index of the sensing medium.

2 Design background and theoretical analysis of


proposed structure
In this section we have given the short introduction of each layer used in the proposed
biosensor. In upcoming result section, the comparative analysis of different material with
relevant graph is shown in order to clarify why we have taken this particular material in our

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