Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Terahertz Metasurface Biosensor for Breast Cancer Biomarker Detection
摘要
This study reports a biosensor engineered for the label-free detection of breast cancer biomarkers, leveraging surface plasmon polaritons in a metal–insulator–metal configuration. The sensor architecture integrates gold-coated rectangular resonators and silver-coated square resonators atop a graphene-functionalized circular base further enhanced by a surrounding array of MXene-coated hemispherical ring resonators on a SiO₂ substrate. Finite element simulations using COMSOL Multiphysics demonstrates a resonant frequency window between 0.738 and 0.742 THz, delivering a sensitivity of 500 GHzRIU−1a figure of merit (FOM) of 5.208 RIU⁻1, a quality factor (Q) of 7.729, and a detection limit of 0.401 RIU. The sensor exhibits a strong linear dependence of resonance frequency on refractive index (R2 = 0.988), and design optimization guided by machine learning—specifically polynomial regression—achieves predictive accuracies approaching 100%. These findings position the proposed device among the most sensitive THz biosensors and underscore its promise for non-invasive, real-time breast cancer diagnostics.