Flexible Plasmonic Sensors

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 12 - 20
• Main Authors: Shir, Daniel, Ballard, Zachary S., Ozcan, Aydogan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Fabrication; Flexible plasmonics; local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing; Metals; Nanoparticles; Plasmons; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); Printing; Sensors; Substrates; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS); surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing; local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS); Flexible plasmonics; surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing; Flexible Plasmonics; Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS); Local Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) sensing; Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensing; Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
• ISSN: 1077-260X; 1558-4542
• DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2507363

Mechanical flexibility and the advent of scalable, low-cost, and high-throughput fabrication techniques have enabled numerous potential applications for plasmonic sensors. Sensitive and sophisticated biochemical measurements can now be performed through the use of flexible plasmonic sensors, integrated into existing medical and industrial devices or sample collection units. More robust sensing schemes and practical techniques must be further investigated to fully realize the potentials of flexible plasmonics as a framework for designing low-cost, embedded and integrated sensors for medical, environmental, and industrial applications.