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Metal-insulator-metal waveguide based plasmonic sensors: Fantasy or truth- A critical review
  • Muhammad Ali Butt
Muhammad Ali Butt
Politechnika Warszawska Instytut Mikroelektroniki i Optoelektroniki

Corresponding Author:ali.butt@pw.edu.pl

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Abstract

There is a hysteria over plasmonic sensors based on Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides and researchers around the globe are extensively studying these devices over the past two decades for diverse sensing applications for instance temperature, refractive index, pressure, and biochemical applications among others. The sensors based on MIM waveguides (WGs) are compact and offer unmatchable sensitivity as assessed with dielectric waveguide-based sensors along with an extraordinary figure of merits ( FOM). However, the major concern is that most of these sensors are only numerically simulated/analyzed and there is no experimental demonstration accessible to date. Therefore, in this mini-review, these highly alluring sensor designs are critically analyzed to identify if they are practically feasible or just a fantasy among the scientific community.
28 Oct 2022Submitted to Applied Research
28 Oct 2022Submission Checks Completed
28 Oct 2022Assigned to Editor
01 Nov 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
12 Nov 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
22 Nov 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Major
25 Nov 20221st Revision Received
25 Nov 2022Submission Checks Completed
25 Nov 2022Assigned to Editor
29 Nov 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
08 Dec 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
08 Dec 2022Editorial Decision: Accept