title: Super-Period Gold Nanodisc Grating-Enabled Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectrometer Sensor.
abstract: We experimentally demonstrate a surface plasmon resonance spectrometer sensor by using an e-beam-patterned super-period gold nanodisc grating on a glass substrate. The super-period gold nanodisc grating has a small subwavelength period and a large diffraction grating period. The small subwavelength period enhances localized surface plasmon resonance, and the large diffraction grating period diffracts surface plasmon resonance radiation into different directions corresponding to different wavelengths. Surface plasmon resonance spectra are measured in the first order diffraction spatial profiles captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD) in addition to the traditional way of measurement using an external optical spectrometer in the zeroth order transmission. A surface plasmon resonance sensor for the bovine serum albumin protein nanolayer bonding is demonstrated by measuring the surface plasmon resonance shift in the first order diffraction spatial intensity profiles captured by the CCD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 301 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, Alabama 35899 USA.
authors.forename: Xueli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Ketan H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Bhatt
authors.forename: Song Q
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Junpeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004867:Equipment Design; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000032:analysis; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; D006046:Gold