Modeling Stresses in Plasmonic Nanosensors

Abstract

Sensors are useful in many fields and in particular in environmental monitoring. Sea pollution detection is one of the special areas of environment matrices to be put under control. Given the fact, sensors, located in sea surface and/or deepness, are subject to temperature and mechanical stresses. This latter is a constrained burden in designing sensing systems for this scope. The paper illustrates the design of sensing system including a case hosting a nanosensor in order to allow sea water to pass through. A mechanical stress analysis has been performed.