scholarly journals Perfect Dual-Band Absorber Based on Plasmonic Effect with the Cross-Hair/Nanorod Combination

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fong Chou Chau ◽  
Chung-Ting Chou Chao ◽  
Hung Ji Huang ◽  
Muhammad Raziq Rahimi Kooh ◽  
N. T. R. N. Kumara ◽  
...  

Plasmonic effect using a cross-hair can convey strongly localized surface plasmon modes among the separated composite nanostructures. Compared to its counterpart without the cross-hair, this characteristic has the remarkable merit of enhancing absorptance at resonance and can make the structure carry out a dual-band plasmonic perfect absorber (PPA). In this paper, we propose and design a novel dual-band PPA with a gathering of four metal-shell nanorods using a cross-hair operating at visible and near-infrared regions. Two absorptance peaks at 1050 nm and 750 nm with maximal absorptance of 99.59% and 99.89% for modes 1 and 2, respectively, are detected. High sensitivity of 1200 nm refractive unit (1/RIU), figure of merit of 26.67 and Q factor of 23.33 are acquired, which are very remarkable compared with the other PPAs. In addition, the absorptance in mode 1 is about nine times compared to its counterpart without the cross-hair. The proposed structure gives a novel inspiration for the design of a tunable dual-band PPA, which can be exploited for plasmonic sensor and other nanophotonic devices.

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinghui Wu ◽  
Zeqiang Chen ◽  
Danyang Xu ◽  
Congfen Zhang ◽  
Ronghua Jian

The combination of critical coupling and coupled mode theory in this study elevated the absorption performance of a graphene-based absorber in the near-infrared band, achieving perfect absorption in the double bands (98.96% and 98.22%), owing to the guided mode resonance (the coupling of the leak mode and guided mode under the condition of phase matching, which revealed 100% transmission or reflection efficiency in the wavelet band), and a third high-efficiency absorption (91.34%) emerged. During the evaluation of the single-structure, cross-circle-shaped absorber via simulation and theoretical analysis, the cross-circle shaped absorber assumed a conspicuous preponderance through exploring the correlation between absorption and tunable parameters (period, geometric measure, and incident angle of the cross-circle absorber), and by briefly analyzing the quality factors and universal applicability. Hence, the cross-circle resonance structure provides novel potential for the design of a dual-band unpatterned graphene perfect absorber in the near-infrared band, and possesses practical application significance in photoelectric detectors, modulators, optical switching, and numerous other photoelectric devices.


Micromachines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zao Yi ◽  
Cuiping Liang ◽  
Xifang Chen ◽  
Zigang Zhou ◽  
Yongjian Tang ◽  
...  

We demonstrate a dual-band plasmonic perfect absorber (PA) based on graphene metamaterials. Two absorption peaks (22.5 μm and 74.5 μm) with the maximal absorption of 99.4% and 99.9% have been achieved, respectively. We utilize this perfect absorber as a plasmonic sensor for refractive index (RI) sensing. It has the figure of merit (FOM) of 10.8 and 3.2, and sensitivities of about 5.6 and 17.2 μm/RIU, respectively. Hence, the designed dual-band PA-based RI sensor exhibits good sensing performance in the infrared regime, which offers great potential applications in various biomedical, tunable spectral detecting, environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1164
Author(s):  
Gongli Xiao ◽  
Yanping Xu ◽  
Hongyan Yang ◽  
Zetao Ou ◽  
Jianyun Chen ◽  
...  

Herein, we propose a tunable plasmonic sensor with Fano resonators in an inverted U-shaped resonator. By manipulating the sharp asymmetric Fano resonance peaks, a high-sensitivity refractive index sensor can be realized. Using the multimode interference coupled-mode theory and the finite element method, we numerically simulate the influences of geometrical parameters on the plasmonic sensor. Optimizing the structure parameters, we can achieve a high plasmonic sensor with the maximum sensitivity for 840 nm/RIUand figure of merit for 3.9 × 105. The research results provide a reliable theoretical basis for designing high sensitivity to the next generation plasmonic nanosensor.


2012 ◽  
Vol 523-524 ◽  
pp. 680-685
Author(s):  
Shuhei Uchida ◽  
Kazuya Yamamura ◽  
Nobuyuki Zettsu

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) based sensors are a well established technology utilized for label-free biochemical sensing in immunoassay, medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. The understanding of asymmetric metal nanoparticles, new object for complex, coupled plasmon systems providing localized significantly enhanced E-field, is central to a wide range of novel applications and processes in science of higher sensitive sensing systems. However, few methods are available for actual characterization of such nanostructures at the single particle level. Here we propose a precise and large sized scale fabrication technique for asymmetric nanoshells array with nanogaps of several tens of nanometers for LSPR sensor through atmospheric pressure plasma etching processes. A nanoshell was simply constructed by laminating thin Au films on periodic isolated polymer nanoparticles template. This nanoshells array was expected to exhibit specific near-infrared plasmonic properties. When measuring the sensitivity, nanoshells array exhibited a high sensitivity to changes of surrounding refractive index and showed a higher sensor figure of merit than the alternative structures. This indicated that the enhanced plasmon E-field in the asymmetric nanostructures improved sensor performance. Our fabrication technique and the optical properties of the arrays will provide useful information for developing new plasmonic applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyuan Lu ◽  
Rengang Wan ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Tongyi Zhang

2016 ◽  
Vol 371 ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Ying Qiao Zhang ◽  
Xing Ri Jin ◽  
Shou Zhang ◽  
Young Pak Lee

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