The Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) is a label-free, highly sensitive and real time sensing technique and has been
extensively applied to biosensing and assay for decades. In a conventional SPR biosensor, a prism is used to create the
total reflection in which the evanescent wave can excite the surface plasmon mode at the metal-dielectric interface at
certain angle, at which condition the reflectivity of incident TM-polarized vanished as measured by a far-field
photodetector. This is the optical detection of surface plasmon resonance. In this research, zinc oxide (ZnO) was used as
the dielectric thin-film material above the gold surface on the glass substrate to form a co-plane Schottky diode; this
structure is designed to be an alternative way to detect SPR. The strength of plasmonic field is possible to be monitored
by measuring the photocurrent under the reverse bias. According to our experimental results, the measured photocurrents
with TM-polarized illumination (representing the SPR case), TE-polarized illumination (non-SPR case) and no
illumination conditions under DC -1.5V bias are -76.158mA (2.5μA), -76.085mA (3.6μA) and -76.089mA (3.4μA),
respectively. Based on the results, we have demonstrated this Schottky diode based co-plane device has the potential to
be used as the SPR detector and provides a possible solution for the need of a low-cost, miniaturized, electronically
integrated, and portable SPR biosensor in the near future.
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