Measurements of the optical and thermal properties of the 2D black phosphorus coating

Black phosphorus is a 2D material, which properties are still being discovered. In this paper, the sensitivity to the temperature of a few-layer black phosphorus coating deposited, on the surface of a microsphere-based fiber-optic sensor, by a dip-coating method is presented. The coating was investigated after 2, 3, and 5 deposition cycles and during temperature growth from 50 °C to 300 °C in an interferometric setup. The intensity of the reflected signal increases with each applied layer. During the investigation of the thermal properties, in the range of 50 °C–200 °C, the polynomial growth rate of the reflected signal can be observed, whereas, for the temperatures over 200 °C, the measured peak intensity of the reflected signal stabilizes at a nearly constant level. (paper)