Dynamic Sensing via Photomodulated Gas Desorption in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Chemiresistors
Abstract
Quasi-static sensing, i.e., measurement of a sensor signal change induced by analyte presence with respect to a baseline signal observed in a reference gas beforehand, is the state of the art for qualitative and quantitative analyte identification in chemiresistive sensing. However, this approach is prone to baseline drift and, especially for inexpensive miniaturized point-of-care sensors, repeated calibration with reference gas is not feasible. To access reliable baseline information, active switching between analyte and reference gas would be required, causing a limitation for miniaturized implementation. Dynamic excitation of sensors offers an alternative: Via external stimuli the sensor is reversibly driven out of equilibrium in a controlled way, and the resulting transient sensor response, which is dependent on analytes present, is recorded and interpreted. Correlation of excitation and response signals can reduce effects of baseline drift and furthermore, dynamic features in sensor responses may contain valuable information. Especially light activation is a powerful and potentially miniaturizable approach to agitate sorption processes and therefore induce dynamics. In this work we report photothermal heating of hybrid, chemiresistive gold nanoparticle composites via LED excitation matching the plasmon resonance, to dynamically shift the analyte sorption equilibrium and induce dynamic sensor responses in a highly controlled way. We demonstrate that these sensor responses enable the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) via interpretation of differential signal components and that this approach improves the chemiresistors' baseline stability.
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BibTeX
@misc{mielke2026dynamic,
title = {{Dynamic Sensing via Photomodulated Gas Desorption in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Chemiresistors}},
author = {Lukas Mielke and Dahee Heo and Gabriele Carelli and Hendrik Schlicke},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.08883},
eprint = {2609.08883},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08883},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Dynamic Sensing via Photomodulated Gas Desorption in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Chemiresistors
AU - Lukas Mielke
AU - Dahee Heo
AU - Gabriele Carelli
AU - Hendrik Schlicke
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.08883
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08883
AB - Quasi-static sensing, i.e., measurement of a sensor signal change induced by analyte presence with respect to a baseline signal observed in a reference gas beforehand, is the state of the art for qualitative and quantitative analyte identification in chemiresistive sensing. However, this approach is prone to baseline drift and, especially for inexpensive miniaturized point-of-care sensors, repeated calibration with reference gas is not feasible. To access reliable baseline information, active switching between analyte and reference gas would be required, causing a limitation for miniaturized implementation. Dynamic excitation of sensors offers an alternative: Via external stimuli the sensor is reversibly driven out of equilibrium in a controlled way, and the resulting transient sensor response, which is dependent on analytes present, is recorded and interpreted. Correlation of excitation and response signals can reduce effects of baseline drift and furthermore, dynamic features in sensor responses may contain valuable information. Especially light activation is a powerful and potentially miniaturizable approach to agitate sorption processes and therefore induce dynamics. In this work we report photothermal heating of hybrid, chemiresistive gold nanoparticle composites via LED excitation matching the plasmon resonance, to dynamically shift the analyte sorption equilibrium and induce dynamic sensor responses in a highly controlled way. We demonstrate that these sensor responses enable the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) via interpretation of differential signal components and that this approach improves the chemiresistors' baseline stability.
ER -