Journal
SENSORS
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s20113221
Keywords
guided mode resonance grating sensor; waveguide Bragg grating sensor; flexible strain sensor; temperature sensor; polymer foil; Ormocer((R)); epoxy; electron beam lithography; ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography
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Optical sensors based on guided mode resonance (GMR) realized in polymers are promising candidates for sensitive and cost effective strain sensors. The benefit of GMR grating sensors is the non-contact, easy optical read-out with large working distance, avoiding costly alignment and packaging procedures. The GMR gratings with resonance around 850-900 nm are fabricated using electron beam lithography and replicated using a soft stamp based imprinting technique on 175 mu m-thick foils to make them suitable for optical strain sensing. For the strain measurements, foils are realized with both GMR gratings and waveguides with Bragg gratings. The latter are used as reference sensors and allow extracting the absolute strain sensitivity of the GMR sensor foils. Following this method, it is shown that GMR gratings have an absolute strain sensitivity of 1.02 +/- 0.05 pm/mu epsilon at 870 nm.
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