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Infrared thermal source or perfect absorber sensor based on silver 2D grating

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We design and numerically investigate the spectral properties of two kinds of 2D Ag structured surfaces. The first structure is composed of Ag achieving a maximum absorption of 90% with the optimal structured parameters. The insertion of a metal layer between the grating layer and the substrate improved not only the absorption (greater than 95%) but also the sensor performance. Numerical computation is conducted to obtain the spectral distribution of powers with different structural parameters using the rigorous coupled-wave analysis method. Thus, we have demonstrated that any considered silver structure behaves either as a thermal source or a plasmonic sensor in the infrared range. The degree of directivity of each thermal source studied depends on several geometric and optical parameters. The best directivity is characterized by a narrow band of the full width at half maximum equal to 10.46 mrad with a nearly perfect absorption. Then, the performance of this source is identified by a quality factor (Q) equal to 176.52. The proposed structure as a perfect absorber sensor gives a maximum sensitivity of \(4000\; \text{nm/RIU}\), a maximum absorption of \(100 \%\) (demonstrated by strong fields distribution), and a maximum value of figure of merit equal to \(52.71 \;\text{RIU}^{-1}\) for analyte refractive index ranging from 1.33 to 1.4. The proposed structures have great potential as biosensors.

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Sassi, I., Mghaieth, R. Infrared thermal source or perfect absorber sensor based on silver 2D grating. Appl. Phys. A 126, 675 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-03854-2

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