Surface Protection and Activation of Mid-IR Plasmonic Waveguides for Spectroscopy of Liquids

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26620%2F24%3APU151609" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26620/24:PU151609 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10268011" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10268011</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3321034" target="_blank" >10.1109/JLT.2023.3321034</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Surface Protection and Activation of Mid-IR Plasmonic Waveguides for Spectroscopy of Liquids

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Liquid spectroscopy in the mid-infrared spectral range is a very powerful, yet premature technique for selective and sensitive molecule detection. Due to the lack of suitable concepts and materials for versatile miniaturized sensors, it is often still limited to bulky systems and offline analytics. Mid-infrared plasmonics is a promising field of current research for such compact and surface-sensitive structures, enabling new pathways for much-needed photonic integrated sensors. In this work, we focus on extending the concept of Ge/Au-based mid-infrared plasmonic waveguides to enable broadband liquid detection. Through the implementation of high-quality dielectric passivation layers deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), we cover the weak and water-soluble Ge native oxide. We show that approximately 10 nm of e.g. Al2O3 or ZrO2 can already protect the plasmonic waveguides for up to 90 min of direct water exposure. This unlocks integrated sensing schemes for broadband molecule detection based on mid-infrared plasmonics. In a proof-of-concept experiment, we further demonstrate that the ZrO(2 )coated waveguides can be activated by surface functionalization, allowing the direct measurement of diethyl ether at a wavelength of 9.38 mu m.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Surface Protection and Activation of Mid-IR Plasmonic Waveguides for Spectroscopy of Liquids

Popis výsledku anglicky

Liquid spectroscopy in the mid-infrared spectral range is a very powerful, yet premature technique for selective and sensitive molecule detection. Due to the lack of suitable concepts and materials for versatile miniaturized sensors, it is often still limited to bulky systems and offline analytics. Mid-infrared plasmonics is a promising field of current research for such compact and surface-sensitive structures, enabling new pathways for much-needed photonic integrated sensors. In this work, we focus on extending the concept of Ge/Au-based mid-infrared plasmonic waveguides to enable broadband liquid detection. Through the implementation of high-quality dielectric passivation layers deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), we cover the weak and water-soluble Ge native oxide. We show that approximately 10 nm of e.g. Al2O3 or ZrO2 can already protect the plasmonic waveguides for up to 90 min of direct water exposure. This unlocks integrated sensing schemes for broadband molecule detection based on mid-infrared plasmonics. In a proof-of-concept experiment, we further demonstrate that the ZrO(2 )coated waveguides can be activated by surface functionalization, allowing the direct measurement of diethyl ether at a wavelength of 9.38 mu m.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

20200 - Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

ISSN

0733-8724

e-ISSN

1558-2213

Svazek periodika

42

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

748-759

Kód UT WoS článku

001136943500017

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85173106669