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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors based on three monolayer SnSe allotropes are investigated with the transfer matrix method. The simulated results have indicated that the proposed SnSe-containing biochemical sensors are suitable to detect different types of analytes. Compared with the conventional Ag-only film biochemical sensor whose sensitivity is 116\u00b0\/RIU, the sensitivities of these SnSe-based biochemical sensors containing \u03b1-SnSe, \u03b4-SnSe, \u03b5-SnSe, were obviously increased to 178\u00b0\/RIU, 156\u00b0\/RIU and 154\u00b0\/RIU, respectively. 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