Near-infrared dual-band sensing of trace volatile organic compound gases via metal-organic framework patch array integrated on metal film

Abstract

We propose a hybrid plasmonic zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanostructure to achieve near-infrared dual-band sensing of trace amounts of volatile organic compound (VOC) gases via metal-organic framework patch array integrated on metal (Au) film. To achieve dual-band VOC gas sensing, two absorption peaks related to the surface lattice resonance (SLR) and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) resonance are constructed in this plasmonic structure, to match the nearinfrared absorption bands of methane and ethanol gas molecules respectively. For an 80 nm thick Au layer, the height and width of ZIF-8 patch and the gap between ZIF-8 patches are optimized to be 0.86, 0.925, and 0.43 μm. Then, this structure shows an SLR at 1392.64 and a SPP resonance at 1653.72 nm, which have peak intensities of 0.735 and 0.855, and the Q-values of 1435 and 253, respectively. Furthermore, the third resonance peak related to the Fano resonance is investigated and can be considered as a feasible alternative to calibrate the measurement without external references.