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. 2013 Aug 10;52(23):5695-700.
doi: 10.1364/AO.52.005695.

Terahertz surface plasmon sensor for distinguishing gasolines

Guanlin Liu  1 , Mingxia He, Zhen Tian, Jingyan Li, Jiazheng Liu
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Terahertz surface plasmon sensor for distinguishing gasolines

Guanlin Liu et al. Appl Opt. .

Abstract

Gasolines of two different octane numbers are experimentally distinguished using a thin metal sheet perforated with a periodic hole array terahertz surface plasmon (SP) sensor. This sensor is proved to be very sensitive to the change in permittivities of analytes. The differences between the gasolines 93# and 97# in composition lead to various refractive indices, permittivities, and absorption coefficients, thus varying their interactions with surface waves on the sensor, which enables a distinction of 6 GHz between the two octane numbers in the transmission peaks. The freestanding SP sensor is effective and reliable and can be simply employed in analyte distinction, which has potential applications in the petroleum industry.

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