On-chip surface-enhanced infrared absorption for gas sensing (Conference Presentation)

Xinyuan Chong; Erwen Li; Ki-Joong Kim; Yujing Zhang; Paul R. Ohodnicki; Chih-Hung Chang; Alan X. Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2292283

14 March 2018 On-chip surface-enhanced infrared absorption for gas sensing (Conference Presentation)

Xinyuan Chong, Erwen Li, Ki-Joong Kim, Yujing Zhang, Paul R. Ohodnicki, Chih-Hung Chang, Alan X. Wang

Proceedings Volume 10536, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XX; 105361N (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292283
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) is capable of identifying molecular fingerprints by resonant detection of infrared vibrational modes through the coupling with plasmonic modes of metallic nanostructures. However, SEIRA for on-chip gas sensing is still not very successful due to the intrinsically weak light-matter interaction between photons and gas molecules and the technical challenges in accumulating sufficient gas species in the vicinity of the spatially localized enhanced electric field, namely the “hot-spots”, generated through plasmonics. In this paper, we present a suspended silicon nitride (Si3N4) nano-membrane device by integrating plasmonic nano-patch gold antennas with metal-organic framework (MOF), which can largely adsorb carbon dioxide (CO2) through its nanoporous structure. Unlike conventional SEIRA sensing relying on highly localized hot-spots of plasmonic nanoantennas or nanoparticles, the device reported in this paper engineered the coupled surface plasmon polaritons in the metal-Si3N4 and metal-MOF interfaces to achieve strong optical field enhancement across the entire MOF film. We successfully demonstrated on-chip gas sensing of CO2 with more than 1,800× enhancement factors within a 2.7 μm thin film, and the detection limit was estimated to be about 52 ppm. This work proved the feasibility of developing a new type of on-chip SEIRA gas sensing using hybrid plasmonic-MOF nano-devices with miniaturized size and ultra-high sensitivity.

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Xinyuan Chong, Erwen Li, Ki-Joong Kim, Yujing Zhang, Paul R. Ohodnicki, Chih-Hung Chang, and Alan X. Wang "On-chip surface-enhanced infrared absorption for gas sensing (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10536, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XX, 105361N (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292283

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Plasmonics

Infrared radiation

Absorption

Carbon dioxide

Infrared detectors

Micro optical fluidics

Telecommunications

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