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Determination of 1-propanol, ethanol, and methanol concentrations in water based on a one-dimensional phoxonic crystal sensor

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In this research, the photonic and phononic response of one-dimensional multilayer phoxonic crystals (PxCs) with normal incident of electromagnetic and acoustic waves is discussed. The presented design can work as a highly sensitive sensor for measuring three binary alcohol/water mixtures (i.e., 1-propanol/water, ethanol/water, and methanol/water) for a wide range of concentrations. The PxC sensor is able to detect small changes in the refractive index and longitudinal sound velocity of the alcohol/water mixture with initially neglecting the acousto-optical interaction. The sensor design is a defective structure as [$({\rm Si}/{\rm SiO}_2)^4 (\rm mixture\;wt. \%) {({{\rm SiO}_2}/{\rm Si})^4}$]. Also, we studied the effects of changing mixture concentrations from 0 wt. % to 100 wt. % on the physio-chemical parameters and resonant mode frequency. In our results, we have achieved high performance for the three alcohol mixtures in both phononic and photonic sensors especially for low concentrations. For example, in the photonic sensor we obtained sensitivity, $Q$ value, and figure of merit of 873 nm/RIU, 755, and ${290}\;{{\rm RIU}^{ - 1}}$, respectively, for methanol of concentration 10% in water. The phononic sensor showed higher results compared with the photonic sensor, as for ethanol with concentration 26.8% in water we obtained sensitivity, $Q$ value, and figure of merit of ${37}\;{{\rm MHz/ms}^{ - 1}}$, 1604, and ${8.4}\;{({\rm m/s})^{ - 1}}$, respectively. The proposed structure has different merits: operation at high temperatures, compact size, ease of fabrication, and feasibility of alcohol detection with two different methods that could be used in many chemical applications.

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