Imperial College London

Professor Fang Xie

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials

Professor of Functional Materials
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9693f.xie Website

 
 
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Location

 

1.03Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Centeno:2017:10.20944/preprints201711.0205.v1,
author = {Centeno, A and Aid, SRB and Xie, F},
doi = {10.20944/preprints201711.0205.v1},
title = {Infra-Red Plasmonic Sensors},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints201711.0205.v1},
year = {2017}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - <jats:p>Plasmonic sensors exploiting the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) of noble metal nanoparticles are common in the visual spectrum. However, for bio-sensors the near infra-red (NIR) windows (600 nm &ndash; 900 nm and 1000 nm -1400 nm) are of interest, as it is a region where the absorption coefficient of water, melaninm deoxy- and hemoglobin are all low. The first part of this paper reviews the work that has been undertaken on using gold (Au) and silver (Ag) particles in Metal Enhanced Fluorescence (MEF) in the NIR. Despite this success there are limitations, as there is only a narrow band in the visual and NIR where losses are low for traditional plasmonic materials. Further, noble metals are not compatible with standard silicon manufacturing processes, making it challenging to produce on-chip integrated plasmonic sensors with Au or Ag. Therefore, it is desirable to use different materials for plasmonic chemical and biological sensing, that are foundry-compatible with silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge). One material that has received significant attention is highly doped Ge which starts to exhibit metallic properties at a wavelength as short as 6 &mu;m. This is discussed in the second part of the paper and the results of recent analysis are included.&nbsp;</jats:p>
AU - Centeno,A
AU - Aid,SRB
AU - Xie,F
DO - 10.20944/preprints201711.0205.v1
PY - 2017///
TI - Infra-Red Plasmonic Sensors
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints201711.0205.v1
ER -