Research Article
Design and Numerical Analysis of a Novel Rectangular PCF (R-PCF)-Based Biochemical Sensor (BCS) in the THz Regime
Table 5
Comparison of the proposed BCS with existing sensors.
| | Ref. | RI | Freq. (THz) | EffA (μm2) | NA | EML (cm−1) | Dispersion (ps/THz/cm) | ConfL (cm−1) | Sensitivity (%) |
| | [5] | 1.33, 1.35, 1.38 | 1.5 | 166000 | — | — | 20 | 2.93 × 10−14 | 79.91 | | [32] | 1.33, 1.354, 1.366 | 1.0 | 144000 | — | — | — | 2.5 × 10−14 | 63.24 | | [14] | 1.366, 1.394, 1.44 | 1.8 | — | — | 0.009 | — | 1.71 × 10−14 | 94.40 | | [33] | 1.3326–1.3505 | 1.8 | 397340 | — | 0.004 | — | 4.87 × 10−11 | 91.50 | | [34] | 1.33, 1.354, 1.366 | 1.0 | — | — | — | — | 3.02 × 10−8 | 78.06 | | [69] | 1.33, 1.354, 1.366 | 1.7 | — | 0.42 | 0.028 | 0.275 | 1.23 × 10−8 | 89.00% | | [70] | 1.41, 1.45 | 2.5 | — | — | 0.028 | — | 5.00 × 10−15 | 89.00 | | Proposed BCS | 1.33–1.48 | 2.5 | 97341 | 0.2121 | 0.0051 | 0.1176 ± 0.0112 | 3.00×10−13 | 95.82 |
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