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Impact of surface roughness on the sensitivity enhancement of a nanowire-based surface plasmon resonance biosensor
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- Issue Date
- 2007-01-20
- Citation
- SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, California USA, 20-25 January 2007
- Keywords
- Localized surface plasmon resonance ; biosensors ; metallic nanowires ; surface roughness ; sensitivity enhancement
- Abstract
- In this study, we investigated the impact of surface roughness on the sensitivity of conventional and nanowire-based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors. The theoretical research was conducted using rigorous coupled-wave analysis with Gaussian surface profiles of gold films determined by atomic force microscopy. The results suggest that, when surface roughness ranges 1 nm, the sensitivity of a conventional SPR system is not significantly affected regardless of the correlation length. For a nanowire-based SPR biosensor, however, we found that the sensitivity degrades substantially with a decreasing correlation length. Particularly, at a correlation length smaller than 100 nm, random rough surface may induce destructive coupling between excited localized surface plasmons, which can lead to prominent reduction of sensitivity enhancement.
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