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Table 1 Fingerprint detection of metasurface

From: Frequency selective fingerprint sensor: the Terahertz unity platform for broadband chiral enantiomers multiplexed signals and narrowband molecular AIT enhancement

Scheme

Multiplex

AIT

(Enhancement factor)

Frequency range

Analyte

Enhancement factor

Comment

Dielectric metagrating [40]

Angle

/

Mid-IR

Isomer

(hBN, cBN)

5.4

(Theory)

 

Dielectric metagrating [30]

Angle/thickness

/

THz

(0.9–1.6 THz)

Isomer

(ε-HNIW, γ-HNIW)

79

(Theory)

Fluid and substrate hardly have same RI, making this composite multiplex unrealistic

Plasmonic metasurface [41]

Graphenevoltage/geometry

/

THz

(1.2–2.7 THz)

glucose

5

(Theory)

 

FSFS(This work)

Geometry

α-lactose

(7)

THz

(0.95–2 THz)

Chiral enantiomers

(D-carnitine and L-carnitine)

7.3 (Experiment)