| Title |
The Integrated Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor using Polymer Optical Waveguide |
| Authors |
오금윤(Oh, Geum-Yoon) ; 김두근(Kim, Doo-Gun) ; 김홍승(Kim, Hong-Seung) ; 이태경(Lee, Tae-Kyeong) ; 최영완(Choi, Young-Wan) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2012.61.3.433 |
| Keywords |
Biosensor ; Finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) method ; Optical waveguide ; Polymer ; Surface plasmon resonance |
| Abstract |
We propose a novel micro surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor system based on polymer materials. The proposed SPR system consists of the incident medium with polymer waveguide and the gold thin film for sensing area. Using a polymer optical waveguide instead of a prism in SPR sensing system offers miniaturization, low cost, and potable sensing capability. The whole device performance was analyzed using the finite-difference time domain method. The optimum gold thickness in the attenuated total reflection mirror of polymer waveguide is around 50 nm and the resonance angle to generate surface plasmon wave is 68 degrees. |