TY - JOUR
T1 - Photonic crystal fiber based plasmonic sensors
AU - Rifat, Ahmmed A.
AU - Ahmed, Rajib
AU - Yetisen, Ali K.
AU - Butt, Haider
AU - Sabouri, Aydin
AU - Mahdiraji, G. Amouzad
AU - Yun, Seok Hyun
AU - Adikan, F. R.Mahamd
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the University of Malaya MOHE-High Impact Research grant UM.0000005/HIR.C1 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - The development of highly-sensitive miniaturized sensors that allow real-time quantification of analytes is highly desirable in medical diagnostics, veterinary testing, food safety, and environmental monitoring. Photonic Crystal Fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance (PCF SPR) has emerged as a highly-sensitive portable sensing technology for testing chemical and biological analytes. PCF SPR sensing combines the advantages of PCF technology and plasmonics to accurately control the evanescent field and light propagation properties in single or multimode configurations. This review discusses fundamentals and fabrication of fiber optic technologies incorporating plasmonic coatings to rationally design, optimize and construct PCF SPR sensors as compared to conventional SPR sensing. PCF SPR sensors with selective metal coatings of fibers, silver nanowires, slotted patterns, and D-shaped structures for internal and external microfluidic flows are reviewed. This review also includes potential applications of PCF SPR sensors, identifies perceived limitations, challenges to scaling up, and provides future directions for their commercial realization.
AB - The development of highly-sensitive miniaturized sensors that allow real-time quantification of analytes is highly desirable in medical diagnostics, veterinary testing, food safety, and environmental monitoring. Photonic Crystal Fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance (PCF SPR) has emerged as a highly-sensitive portable sensing technology for testing chemical and biological analytes. PCF SPR sensing combines the advantages of PCF technology and plasmonics to accurately control the evanescent field and light propagation properties in single or multimode configurations. This review discusses fundamentals and fabrication of fiber optic technologies incorporating plasmonic coatings to rationally design, optimize and construct PCF SPR sensors as compared to conventional SPR sensing. PCF SPR sensors with selective metal coatings of fibers, silver nanowires, slotted patterns, and D-shaped structures for internal and external microfluidic flows are reviewed. This review also includes potential applications of PCF SPR sensors, identifies perceived limitations, challenges to scaling up, and provides future directions for their commercial realization.
KW - Biosensors
KW - Optical fiber sensors
KW - Photonic crystal fibers
KW - Surface plasmon resonance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.snb.2016.11.113
DO - 10.1016/j.snb.2016.11.113
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85002374008
SN - 0925-4005
VL - 243
SP - 311
EP - 325
JO - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
JF - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
ER -