Metasurface Design for Dual-Mode Sensors Based on Broken Symmetry Structure.

Dual-mode sensors are currently facing difficulties in achieving independent sensing of parameters as well as low sensitivity. In this paper, we propose a dual-mode sensor using the finite element method (FEM) based on a coupled silver-PDMS-gold (SPG) cavity. We coupled a square ring resonant cavity with a double-ring resonant cavity structure, thus identifying a unique resonant cavity structure. The square ring resonator is made of silver and a double-ring resonant cavity filled with PDMS. Our proposed SPG cavity can independently achieve temperature and refractive index sensing. The SPG cavity enables us to obtain the highest biosensing sensitivity of about 1030 nm/RIU and the highest temperature sensitivity of about 216 pm/K. In addition, SPG cavities have excellent tolerances for geometric parameters. Our results provide new methodologies for metasurface design for dual-mode sensing.