Spatial and spectral selective characteristics of the plasmonic sensing using metallic nanoslit arrays

Abstract

A novel spatial and spectral selective plasmonic sensing based on the metal nanoslit arrays has been proposed and investigated theoretically, which shows a high performance in the multiplexing biomolecular detections. By properly tuning the geometric parameters of metal nanoslit arrays, the enhanced optical fields at different regions can be obtained selectively due to the excitation of SPP, cavity mode (CM), and their coupling effects. Simulation results show that the resonances of the metal nanoslit arrays at different spatial locations and different wavelengths can be achieved simultaneously. A relative bigger red-shift of 57nm can be realized when a layer of biomolecular film is adsorbing at the slit walls, and the corresponding total intensity difference will be enhanced near 10 times compared to that at the top surface. In addition, when a BSA protein monolayer is adsorbing at slit walls with different slit widths, the corresponding wavelength shifts can reach to more than 80nm by modulating the widths of the slit. The simulated results demonstrate that our designed metal nanoslit arrays can serve as a portable, low-cost biosensing with a high spatial and spectral selective performance.