Physics

Resonance (particle physics)

Biosensor

Nanotechnology

Dipole

Resonator

Terahertz radiation

Particle physics

Optics

Magnetic dipole

Q factor

Materials science

Optical ring resonators

Silicon

Quantum mechanics

Refractive index

Optoelectronics

Split-ring resonator

IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience

A technique is implemented for altering the multimodal resonance generated in an ultrathin silicon ring resonator-based terahertz (THz) absorber. The absorber provides the dual-band resonance with the excitation of magnetic and electric dipole in the lower and upper band, respectively. The field of magnetic and electric dipoles is altered using a non-resonant graphene ring placed in the center of the generated dipolar arrangement and the tunability and perfect absorption is achieved. A circuit model is prepared using transmission line method and absorber operation is verified. The proposed absorber can be utilized as a biosensor for the detection of malaria virus and glucose percentage in water. The sensor offers highest sensitivity as 0.29 and 0.27 THz per thickness unit change and quality factor as 117.53 and 245 in the lower and upper band, respectively during the sensing of analyte thickness. Also, it offers the sensitivity as 0.20 and 0.10 THz per refractive index unit change and quality factor as 105.28 and 211.84 in the lower and upper band, respectively during refractive index sensing. Moreover, the structure remains insensitive to polarization angle of the incident electromagnetic wave.

Altering the Multimodal Resonance in Ultrathin Silicon Ring for Tunable THz Biosensing