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Main Authors: Schlicke, Hendrik, Maletz, Roman, Dornack, Christina, Fery, Andreas
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07586
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author Schlicke, Hendrik
Maletz, Roman
Dornack, Christina
Fery, Andreas
author_facet Schlicke, Hendrik
Maletz, Roman
Dornack, Christina
Fery, Andreas
contents Current challenges in environmental science, medicine, food chemistry as well as the emerging use of artificial intelligence for solving problems in these fields require distributed, local sensing. Such ubiquitous sensing requires components with (1) high sensitivity, (2) power efficiency, (3) miniaturizability and (4) the ability to directly interface with electronic circuitry, i.e., electronic readout of sensing signals. Over the recent years, several nanoparticle-based approaches have found their way into this field and have demonstrated high performance. However, challenges remain, such as the toxicity of many of today's narrow bandgap semiconductors for NIR detection and the high energy consumption as well as low selectivity of state-of-the-art commercialized gas sensors. With their unique light-matter interaction and ink-based fabrication schemes, plasmonic nanostructures provide potential technological solutions to these challenges, leading also to better environmental performance. In this perspective we discuss recent approaches of using plasmonic nanoparticles for the fabrication of NIR photodetectors and light-activated, energy-efficient gas sensing devices. In addition, we point out new strategies implying computational approaches for miniaturizable spectrometers, exploiting the wide spectral tunability of plasmonic nanocomposites, and for selective gas sensors, utilizing dynamic light activation. The benefits of colloidal approaches for device fabrication are discussed with regard to technological advantages and environmental aspects, which have been barely considered so far.
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spellingShingle Plasmonic Particle Integration into Near-Infrared Photodetectors and Photoactivated Gas Sensors: Towards Sustainable Next-Generation Ubiquitous Sensing
Schlicke, Hendrik
Maletz, Roman
Dornack, Christina
Fery, Andreas
Applied Physics
Current challenges in environmental science, medicine, food chemistry as well as the emerging use of artificial intelligence for solving problems in these fields require distributed, local sensing. Such ubiquitous sensing requires components with (1) high sensitivity, (2) power efficiency, (3) miniaturizability and (4) the ability to directly interface with electronic circuitry, i.e., electronic readout of sensing signals. Over the recent years, several nanoparticle-based approaches have found their way into this field and have demonstrated high performance. However, challenges remain, such as the toxicity of many of today's narrow bandgap semiconductors for NIR detection and the high energy consumption as well as low selectivity of state-of-the-art commercialized gas sensors. With their unique light-matter interaction and ink-based fabrication schemes, plasmonic nanostructures provide potential technological solutions to these challenges, leading also to better environmental performance. In this perspective we discuss recent approaches of using plasmonic nanoparticles for the fabrication of NIR photodetectors and light-activated, energy-efficient gas sensing devices. In addition, we point out new strategies implying computational approaches for miniaturizable spectrometers, exploiting the wide spectral tunability of plasmonic nanocomposites, and for selective gas sensors, utilizing dynamic light activation. The benefits of colloidal approaches for device fabrication are discussed with regard to technological advantages and environmental aspects, which have been barely considered so far.
title Plasmonic Particle Integration into Near-Infrared Photodetectors and Photoactivated Gas Sensors: Towards Sustainable Next-Generation Ubiquitous Sensing
topic Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07586