Analysis of Surface Plasmon Resonance Curves with a Novel Sigmoid-Asymmetric Fitting Algorithm.

Daeho Jang,Geunhyoung Chae,Sehyun Shin

doi:10.3390/s151025385

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Abstract

The present study introduces a novel curve-fitting algorithm for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) curves using a self-constructed, wedge-shaped beam type angular interrogation SPR spectroscopy technique. Previous fitting approaches such as asymmetric and polynomial equations are still unsatisfactory for analyzing full SPR curves and their use is limited to determining the resonance angle. In the present study, we developed a sigmoid-asymmetric equation that provides excellent curve-fitting for the whole SPR curve over a range of incident angles, including regions of the critical angle and resonance angle. Regardless of the bulk fluid type (i.e., water and air), the present sigmoid-asymmetric fitting exhibited nearly perfect matching with a full SPR curve, whereas the asymmetric and polynomial curve fitting methods did not. Because the present curve-fitting sigmoid-asymmetric equation can determine the critical angle as well as the resonance angle, the undesired effect caused by the bulk fluid refractive index was excluded by subtracting the critical angle from the resonance angle in real time. In conclusion, the proposed sigmoid-asymmetric curve-fitting algorithm for SPR curves is widely applicable to various SPR measurements, while excluding the effect of bulk fluids on the sensing layer.

Highlights

Since the first observation using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors by Wood in 1902 [1,2], SPR sensors have emerged as popular analysis tools for bio-molecules, used label-free to detect changes in the refractive index or thickness of an adsorbed layer on or near the sensing film of the SPR sensor with a high sensitivity in real time [3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
We introduced a novel full-SPR-curve-fitting algorithm based on a sigmoid-asymmetric equation that can rapidly determine the critical angle and resonance angle in real time
The fitting curves obtained by the proposed sigmoid-asymmetric based approach almost perfectly matched the full SPR curves with water and air as bulk fluids on the sensing film

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Introduction

Since the first observation using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors by Wood in 1902 [1,2], SPR sensors have emerged as popular analysis tools for bio-molecules, used label-free to detect changes in the refractive index or thickness of an adsorbed layer on or near the sensing film of the SPR sensor with a high sensitivity in real time [3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. For a typical angular interrogating SPR system, a SPR curve indicating the reflectance intensity versus the incident light angle provides a fundamental concept to analyze the binding kinetics of analytes on a sensor film according to changes in the refractive index [10]. SPR sensors generally monitor the changes of reflectance intensity over a range of incident angles when target-molecules interact on the sensing surface. The asymmetric fitting method determines the resonance angle very accurately using a simple equation derived from the complicated multi-layer Fresnel equation

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