title: Metal single-nanowire plasmonic sensors.
abstract: We demonstrated a general approach for plasmonic sensing using metal single nanowires based on an evanescent coupling technique, where light was efficiently launched into and picked up from the metal nanowires using silica fiber tapers. A high amplitude sensitivity of ~13 dB to 1.2% hydrogen was obtained using palladium-coated Au nanowires for hydrogen sensing, and a fast response of ~5 ms was obtained using a polyacrylamide film-supported Ag nanowire for relative humidity sensing. Our results may help develop metal nanowire-based plasmonic sensors.
authors.affiliation: Institute Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and System, Ministry of Education, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
authors.forename: Fuxing
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Heping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Limin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Songlin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhuang
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D006813:Humidity; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000032:analysis; D053770:Nanowires; D055096:Optical Devices; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D006046:Gold; D012822:Silicon Dioxide; D006859:Hydrogen