Graphene-Gold Metasurface Architectures for Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Biosensing.

Zeng, Shuwen; Sreekanth, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu; Shang, Jingzhi; Yu, Ting; Chen, Chih-Kuang; Yin, Feng; Baillargeat, Dominique; Coquet, Philippe et al. · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Graphene-gold metasurface architectures that can provide significant gains in plasmonic detection sensitivity for trace-amount target analytes are reported. Benefiting from extreme phase singularities of reflected light induced by strong plasmon-mediated energy confinements, the metasurface demonstrates a much-improved sensitivity to molecular bindings nearby and achieves an ultralow detection limit of 1 × 10(-18) m for 7.3 kDa 24-mer single-stranded DNA.

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