We engineer an Aluminum (Al)-based plasmonic device coated with TiO2 and SiO2 layers for biosensing applications. First, the thicknesses of TiO2, SiO2, and Al layers are optimized under the angle interrogation scheme for a wavelength of 1550 nm. Over an optimized value of TiO2, SiO2, and Al film thickness, the variation trend in the performance parameters is studied for a range of thicknesses of 2D nanomaterials for the biofunctionalization of the sensing surface. Later, with the optimized intermediate layers, we present a comparative analysis of Al-based Kretschmann configuration with Graphene, MoS2, MXene, and Fluorinated Graphene. It is observed that the TiO2-SiO2-Al-Fluorinated Graphene-based plasmonic device provides enhanced sensing parameters (sensitivity =120°/RIU, Figure of Merit = 430 RIU-1).
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