Black phosphorus integrated tilted fiber grating for ultrasensitive heavy metal sensing

Abstract

We propose an integrated black phosphorus (BP)-tilted fiber grating (TFG) configuration as an enhanced light-matter interaction platform for heavy metal chemical sensing. We synthesized BP nanosheets by using a liquid-phase exfoliation method and developed an in-situ layer-by-layer (i-LbL) technique for BP nanosheets deposition. These approaches secured high-quality BP coating on specific fiber cylindrical surface with strong adhesion as well as a prospective thickness control. By taking advantage of i-LbL deposition, the unique optical tunable features including coating thickness-dependent polarization and polarization- selective coupling have been experimentally observed. Furthermore, the BP-TFG was exploited as the first BP-fiber optic chemical sensor for heavy metal Pb2+ ions detection, demonstrating significant performance of ultrahigh sensitivity up to 0.5 × 10−3 dB/ppb, much lower limit of detection down to 0.25 ppb, and extremely wide concentration range from 0.1 ppb to 1.5 × 107 ppb. We believe that this BP-fiber optic architecture opens the path as an optical platform for superior chemical sensing and biomedical applications.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2017.11.022
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding: EC FP7 PIRSES-GA-2013-612267 (iPhoto-Bio), the Sêr Cymru NRN Fund (NRN097), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51672305, No. 81501577).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Black phosphorus; Nanomaterials; Fiber grating; Optical sensor; Chemical sensor; Heavy metal
Publication ISSN: 0925-4005
Last Modified: 29 Jan 2024 08:13
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2017 13:45
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-03
Published Online Date: 2017-11-07
Accepted Date: 2017-11-05
Authors: Liu, C.
Sun, Z.
Zhang, L.
Lv, J.
Yu, X.f.
Zhang, L.
Chen, X.

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