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Microfluidics Integrated Lithography-Free Nanophotonic Biosensor for the Detection of Small Molecules
摘要： Currently, labeling techniques are mostly used to study the binding kinetics of small molecules and their detection (molecular weights <500 Daltons) at low analyte concentrations. However, the fluorescent tags used in this method for conjugation may modify or prevent the functionality of the targeted molecules. Although label-free techniques provide more accurate quantitative and kinetic measurements by monitoring the binding of analytes in their usual forms, the monitoring of small molecule binding at lower concentrations is still impossible using conventional refractometric sensing devices. Here, a label-free and cost-effective technique is demonstrated for the detection of ultralow molecular weight biomolecules such as biotin (244 Daltons) at very low concentrations. This extreme sensitivity is realized by utilizing the phase singularity feature of lithography-free nanophotonic cavities. The proposed four-layered metal-dielectric-dielectric-metal asymmetric Fabry–Perot cavity exhibits point-of-darkness and phase singularity at the Brewster angle. Since the singular phase behavior depends on the topology of the cavity surface, it is very challenging to realize singular phase in reflection mode for a microfluidics integrated nanophotonic cavity. To overcome this issue, a specially designed polymethylmethacrylate microfluidic channel is integrated with the cavity.
关键词： flat-optics,small biomolecules,Fabry–Perot cavities,lithography-free,label-free optical biosensors,biosensors
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Color Routing via Cross-Polarized Detuned Plasmonic Nanoantennas in Large Area Metasurfaces
摘要： Bidirectional nanoantennas are of key relevance for advanced functionalities to be implemented at the nanoscale, and in particular for color routing in an ultracompact flat-optics configuration. Here we demonstrate a novel approach avoiding complex collective geometries and/or restrictive morphological parameters, based on cross-polarized detuned plasmonic nanoantennas in a uniaxial (quasi-1D) bimetallic configuration. The nanofabrication of such a flat-optics system is controlled over a large-area (cm2) by a novel self-organized technique exploiting ion-induced nanoscale wrinkling instability on glass templates to engineer tilted bimetallic nanostrip dimers. These nanoantennas feature broadband color routing with superior light scattering directivity figures, which are well described by numerical simulations and turn out to be competitive with the response of lithographic nanoantennas. These results demonstrate that our large-area self-organized metasurfaces can be implemented in real world applications of flat optics color routing from telecom photonics to optical nanosensing.
关键词： Tilted Nanostrips,Flat-Optics,Plasmonic Dimers,Plasmonic metasurfaces,Color Routing,Self-organized Nanoantennas
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Metasurfaces: Subwavelength nanostructure arrays for ultrathin flat optics and photonics
摘要： Miniaturization is a strong demand of modern scientific technology. However, conventional optical components based on refraction suffer from functional degradation as the device size decreases. Metasurfaces consisting of subwavelength optical antenna arrays have emerged as planar optical devices that enable many promising applications in lenses, holograms, and optical cloaks. During recent decades, metasurfaces have been developed for their specific functionalities by exploiting new materials and design algorithms. In this issue of MRS Bulletin, progress in metasurfaces is discussed to provide a comprehensive understanding of metasurfaces and their novel applications in optics and photonics.
关键词： subwavelength nanostructure arrays,photonics,Metasurfaces,ultrathin flat optics
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Plasmonic Metasurfaces Situated on Ultra-thin Carbon Nanomembranes
摘要： During the last decade, optical metasurfaces consisting of designed nanoresonators arranged in a planar fashion were successfully demonstrated to allow for the realization of a large variety of flat optical components. However, in common implementations of metasurfaces and metasurface-based devices, their flat nature is thwarted by the presence of a substrate of macroscopic thickness, which is needed to mechanically support the individual nanoresonators. Here, we demonstrate that Carbon Nanomembranes (CNMs) having nanoscale thickness can be used as a basis for arranging array of plasmonic nano-resonators into a metamembrane, allowing for the realization of genuinely flat optical devices. CNMs belong to the family of two-dimensional materials, and their thickness, mechanical, chemical, and electrical properties can be tailored by the choice of the molecular precursors used for their fabrication. We experimentally fabricate gold split-ring-resonator (SRR) metasurfaces on top of a free-standing CNM, which has a thickness of only about 1 nm and shows negligible interaction with the incident light field. For optical characterization of the fabricated SRR CNM metasurfaces, we perform linear-optical transmittance spectroscopy, revealing the typical resonance structure of an SRR metasurface. Furthermore, numerical calculations assuming free-standing SRR arrays are in excellent agreement with corresponding experimental transmittance spectra. We believe that our scheme offers a versatile solution for the realization of ultrathin, ultra lightweight metadevices, and may initiate various future research directions and applications including complex sensor technologies, conformal coating of complex topographies with functional metasurfaces, fast prototyping of multilayer metasurfaces, and studying the optical properties of effectively free-standing nanoparticles without the need for levitation schemes.
关键词： carbon nanomembranes,two-dimensional materials,nanoplasmonics,flat-optics,metasurfaces
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Progresses in the practical metasurface for holography and lens
摘要： Metasurfaces have received enormous attention thanks to their unique ability to modulate electromagnetic properties of light in various frequency regimes. Recently, exploiting its fabrication ease and modulation strength, unprecedented and unique controlling of light that surpasses conventional optical devices has been suggested and studied a lot. Here, in this paper, we discuss some parts of this trend including holography, imaging application, dispersion control, and multiplexing, mostly operating for optical frequency regime. Finally, we will outlook the future of the devices with recent applications of these metasurfaces.
关键词： metasurface,flat optics,metamaterial
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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Subwavelength Artificial Structures: Opening a New Era for Engineering Optics
摘要： In the past centuries, the scale of engineering optics has evolved toward two opposite directions: one is represented by giant telescopes with apertures larger than tens of meters and the other is the rapidly developing micro/nano-optics and nanophotonics. At the nanoscale, subwavelength light–matter interaction is blended with classic and quantum effects in various functional materials such as noble metals, semiconductors, phase-change materials, and 2D materials, which provides unprecedented opportunities to upgrade the performance of classic optical devices and overcome the fundamental and engineering difficulties faced by traditional optical engineers. Here, the research motivations and recent advances in subwavelength artificial structures are summarized, with a particular emphasis on their practical applications in super-resolution and large-aperture imaging systems, as well as highly efficient and spectrally selective absorbers and emitters. The role of dispersion engineering and near-field coupling in the form of catenary optical fields is highlighted, which reveals a methodology to engineer the electromagnetic response of complex subwavelength structures. Challenges and tentative solutions are presented regarding multiscale design, optimization, fabrication, and system integration, with the hope of providing recipes to transform the theoretical and technological breakthroughs on subwavelength hierarchical structures to the next generation of engineering optics, namely Engineering Optics 2.0.
关键词： metasurfaces,plasmonics,flat optics,engineering optics,diffraction limit
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36