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In this paper, we have proposed a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) pressure sensor which consists of two plasmonic waveguides and a double square ring resonator. The two square rings are connected via a rectangular patch located between the two of them. The surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be transferred from a square ring to the other through this patch. The finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) has been used to simulate the device. Applying a pressure on the structure, it deforms, and a red shift of 103 nm in the resonance wavelength has been calculated. The deformation is linearly proportional to the wavelength shift in a wide range of wavelength. The proposed optical plasmonic pressure sensor has a sensitivity of 16.5 nm/MPa which makes it very suitable for using in biological and biomedical engineering.
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This work was supported by Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University under Grant No. 3359.
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Palizvan, P., Olyaee, S. & Seifouri, M. An Optical MIM Pressure Sensor Based on a Double Square Ring Resonator. Photonic Sens 8, 242–247 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-018-0491-z
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