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A metamaterial sensor based on microring resonator operating in WGM is proposed, and the resonance intensity spectrum curves in the frequency range from 185 to 212 THz were studied under different sensing conditions. Full-wave simulations, considering the frequency shift sensitivity influenced by the change of core media permittivity, the thickness and permittivity of the adsorbed substance, prove that the sensitivity of the metamaterial sensor is more than 7 times that of the traditional microring resonator sensor, and the metamaterial layer loaded in the inner side of the microring doesn\u2019t affect the high Q performance of the microring resonator.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s110605886","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,5,31]],"date-time":"2011-05-31T10:04:20Z","timestamp":1306836260000},"page":"5886-5899","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Simulation and Analysis of a Metamaterial Sensor Based on a Microring Resonator"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9517-2125","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingjing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sun","family":"Jun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shujuan","family":"Mu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yaozhong","family":"Lan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,5,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3966","DOI":"10.1103\/PhysRevLett.85.3966","article-title":"Negative refraction makes a perfect lens","volume":"85","author":"Pendry","year":"2000","journal-title":"Phys. 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