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Xie Z, Li C, Murali K, Yu H, Liu C, Lu Y, Maier SA, Bhaskaran M, Ren H. Ultrathin BIC Metasurfaces Based on Ultra-Low-Loss Sb 2Se 3 Phase-Change Material. NANO LETTERS 2025; 25:251-260. [PMID: 39699585 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2024]
Abstract
Ultrathin and low-loss phase-change materials (PCMs) are highly valued for their fast and effective phase transitions and applications in reconfigurable photonic chips, metasurfaces, optical modulators, sensors, photonic memories, and neuromorphic computing. However, conventional PCMs mostly suffer from high intrinsic losses in the near-infrared (NIR) region, limiting their potential for high quality factor (Q-factor) resonant metasurfaces. Here we present the design and fabrication of tunable bound states in the continuum (BIC) metasurfaces using the ultra-low-loss PCM Sb2Se3. Our BIC metasurfaces, only 25 nm thick, achieve high modulation depth and broad resonance tuning in the NIR with high Q-factors up to 130. Experimentally, we employ these BIC metasurfaces to modulate photoluminescence in rare earth-doped upconversion nanoparticles, reducing the excitation power for multiphoton photoluminescence and enabling emission polarization manipulation. This work offers a promising platform for developing active resonant metasurfaces, with broad applications including optical modulation, ultrafast switches, color filtering, and optical sensing.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zhaoyang Xie
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-optical Systems (TMOS), Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Centre for Metamaterial Research & Innovation, Department of Engineering, University of Exeter, Exeter EX44QF, United Kingdom
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- School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-optical Systems (TMOS), Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
| | - Haoran Ren
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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