Sensitivity Enhancement of MoS2 Nanosheet based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor.

A surface plasmon resonance based biosensor consisting of SF10 prism, silicon layer, gold thin film and MoS 2 enhanced nanosheet is presented. We systematically investigated the SPR reflectivity and resonance angle through the transfer matrix method. Furthermore, with the optimized thickness of gold, silicon and MoS 2 , we calculated the change of resonance angle to a fixed refractive index change of sample solutions and the full width at half maximum of the reflectivity curves. The excitaition wavelengths of light sources that we use range from 600 nm to 1024 nm which covers both visible and near infrared light. In addition, the optimum configuration for MoS 2 -enhanced SPR biosensors are monolayer MoS 2 and 7 nm silicon layer coated on 50 nm Au thin film with 633 nm as the excitation wavelength. With these optimized parameters we can efficiently increase the sensitivity by ∼10%. Even without the silicon layers, the pure MoS 2 enhanced nanosheet can also improve the sensitivity by ∼8%. The performance of MoS 2 enhanced nanosheet is almost 3-fold higher than that of graphene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]