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Gómez-Castaño M, Zheng H, García-Pomar JL, Vallée R, Mihi A, Ravaine S. Tunable index metamaterials made by bottom-up approaches. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2019; 1:1070-1076. [PMID: 31304458 PMCID: PMC6592152 DOI: 10.1039/c8na00250a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Despite the exciting optical properties metamaterials exhibit, their implementation in technology is being hampered nowadays by the inherent losses of their metal constituents and the expensive and low-throughput procedures used. As an alternative, we present a new design of double fishnet metamaterials that can be easily realized combining two inexpensive and up-scalable techniques: nanosphere lithography and metallic electrodeposition. A monolayer of polystyrene spheres is used as a template for the infiltration of two symmetric gold layers separated by an air gap. The effective refractive index of the metamaterial can be easily tuned by the appropriate choice of the diameter of the spheres and the gap width between the metallic layers, varying its value from positive to negative. The good agreement between optical measurements and finite-difference time-domain simulations confirms the success of our process. Fishnet metamaterials with refractive index going from 1.5 until -1.0 in the near infrared range are demonstrated and the key parameters for these architectures provided.
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- Mayte Gómez-Castaño
- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal , CNRS , UMR 5031 , University of Bordeaux , F-33600 Pessac , France .
- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona , CSIC , Campus de la UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain .
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal , CNRS , UMR 5031 , University of Bordeaux , F-33600 Pessac , France .
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona , CSIC , Campus de la UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain .
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal , CNRS , UMR 5031 , University of Bordeaux , F-33600 Pessac , France .
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona , CSIC , Campus de la UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain .
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal , CNRS , UMR 5031 , University of Bordeaux , F-33600 Pessac , France .
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Manipulation of visible-light polarization with dendritic cell-cluster metasurfaces. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9696. [PMID: 29946120 PMCID: PMC6018708 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28030-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cross-polarization conversion plays an important role in visible light manipulation. Metasurface with asymmetric structure can be used to achieve polarization conversion of linearly polarized light. Based on this, we design a quasi-periodic dendritic metasurface model composed of asymmetric dendritic cells. The simulation indicates that the asymmetric dendritic structure can vertically rotate the polarization direction of the linear polarization wave in visible light. Silver dendritic cell-cluster metasurface samples were prepared by the bottom-up electrochemical deposition. It experimentally proved that they could realize the cross - polarization conversion in visible light. Cross-polarized propagating light is deflected into anomalous refraction channels. Dendritic cell-cluster metasurface with asymmetric quasi-periodic structure conveys significance in cross-polarization conversion research and features extensive practical application prospect and development potential.
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Mejía-Salazar JR, Camacho SA, Constantino CJL, Oliveira ON. New trends in plasmonic (bio)sensing. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2018; 90:779-801. [PMID: 29742207 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201820170571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The strong enhancement and localization of electromagnetic field in plasmonic systems have found applications in many areas, which include sensing and biosensing. In this paper, an overview will be provided of the use of plasmonic phenomena in sensors and biosensors with emphasis on two main topics. The first is related to possible ways to enhance the performance of sensors and biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR), where examples are given of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles, magnetoplasmonic effects and use of metamaterials for SPR sensing. The other topic is focused on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for sensing, for which uniform, flexible, and reproducible SERS substrates have been produced. With such recent developments, there is the prospect of improving sensitivity and lowering the limit of detection in order to overcome the limitations inherent in ultrasensitive detection of chemical and biological analytes, especially at single molecule levels.
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Kyrychenko A, Pasko DA, Kalugin ON. Poly(vinyl alcohol) as a water protecting agent for silver nanoparticles: the role of polymer size and structure. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:8742-8756. [PMID: 28217797 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05562a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chemical modification of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with a stabilizing agent, such as poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), plays an important role in shape-controlled seeded-growth and colloidal stability. However, theoretical aspects of the stabilizing mechanism of PVA are still poorly understood. To gain a better understanding of the role of PVA in water protecting effects for silver nanoparticles, we developed an atomistic model of a AgNP grafted with single-chain PVA of various lengths. Our model, designed for classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, approximates the AgNP as a quasi-spherical silver nanocrystal with 3.9 nm diameter and uses a united-atom representation for PVA with its polymer chain length varying from 220 up to 1540 repeating units. We found that PVA adsorbs onto the AgNP surface through multiple non-covalent interactions, among which non-covalent bonding of the hydroxyl groups plays a key role. The analysis of adsorption isotherms by using the Hill, Scatchard, and McGhee & von Hippel models exhibits evidence for positive binding cooperativity with the cooperativity parameter varying from 1.55 to 2.12. Our results indicate that the size of the PVA polymer rather than its structure plays a crucial role in providing water protecting effects for the AgNP core, varying from 40% up to 91%. The water-protecting efficiency was well approximated by the Langmuir-Freundlich equation, allowing us to predict that the saturated coverage of the nanoparticle of a given diameter of 3.9 nm should occur when the PVA molecular weight approaches 115 kDa, which corresponds to the number of vinyl alcohol monomers being equal to 3100 units.
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- Alexander Kyrychenko
- Institute of Chemistry, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine. and School of Chemistry, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
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- School of Chemistry, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
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- School of Chemistry, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
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Manna U, Lee JH, Deng TS, Parker J, Shepherd N, Weizmann Y, Scherer NF. Selective Induction of Optical Magnetism. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:7196-7206. [PMID: 29111760 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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An extension of the Maxwell-Faraday law of electromagnetic induction to optical frequencies requires spatially appropriate materials and optical beams to create resonances and excitations with curl. Here we employ cylindrical vector beams with azimuthal polarization to create electric fields that selectively drive magnetic responses in dielectric core-metal nanoparticle "satellite" nanostructures. These optical frequency magnetic resonances are induced in materials that do not possess spin or orbital angular momentum. Multipole expansion analysis of the scattered fields obtained from electrodynamics simulations show that the excitation with azimuthally polarized beams selectively enhances magnetic vs electric dipole resonances by nearly 100-fold in experiments. Multipolar resonances (e.g., quadrupole and octupole) are enhanced 5-fold by focused azimuthally versus linearly polarized beams. We also selectively excite electric multipolar resonances in the same identical nanostructures with radially polarized light. This work opens new opportunities for spectroscopic investigation and control of "dark modes", Fano resonances, and magnetic modes in nanomaterials and engineered metamaterials.
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- Uttam Manna
- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- The James Franck Institute, ‡Department of Chemistry, §Department of Physics, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Song K, Su Z, Wang M, Silva S, Bhattarai K, Ding C, Liu Y, Luo C, Zhao X, Zhou J. Broadband angle- and permittivity-insensitive nondispersive optical activity based on planar chiral metamaterials. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10730. [PMID: 28878332 PMCID: PMC5587580 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11242-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Because of the strong inherent resonances, the giant optical activity obtained via chiral metamaterials generally suffers from high dispersion, which has been a big stumbling block to broadband applications. In this paper, we propose a type of planar chiral metamaterial consisting of interconnected metal helix slat structures with four-fold symmetry, which exhibits nonresonant Drude-like response and can therefore avoid the highly dispersive optical activity resulting from resonances. It shows that the well-designed chiral metamaterial can achieve nondispersive and pure optical activity with high transmittance in a broadband frequency range. And the optical activity of multi-layer chiral metamaterials is proportional to the layer numbers of single-layer chiral metamaterial. Most remarkably, the broadband behaviors of nondispersive optical activity and high transmission are insensitive to the incident angles of electromagnetic waves and permittivity of dielectric substrate, thereby enabling more flexibility in polarization manipulation.
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- Kun Song
- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China.
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China
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- Department of Physics, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, 33620-5700, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, 33620-5700, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China.
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- Department of Physics, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, 33620-5700, USA.
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Fabrication of three-dimensional suspended, interlayered and hierarchical nanostructures by accuracy-improved electron beam lithography overlay. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6668. [PMID: 28751643 PMCID: PMC5532261 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06833-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Nanofabrication techniques are essential for exploring nanoscience and many closely related research fields such as materials, electronics, optics and photonics. Recently, three-dimensional (3D) nanofabrication techniques have been actively investigated through many different ways, however, it is still challenging to make elaborate and complex 3D nanostructures that many researchers want to realize for further interesting physics studies and device applications. Electron beam lithography, one of the two-dimensional (2D) nanofabrication techniques, is also feasible to realize elaborate 3D nanostructures by stacking each 2D nanostructures. However, alignment errors among the individual 2D nanostructures have been difficult to control due to some practical issues. In this work, we introduce a straightforward approach to drastically increase the overlay accuracy of sub-20 nm based on carefully designed alignmarks and calibrators. Three different types of 3D nanostructures whose designs are motivated from metamaterials and plasmonic structures have been demonstrated to verify the feasibility of the method, and the desired result has been achieved. We believe our work can provide a useful approach for building more advanced and complex 3D nanostructures.
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Metamaterial study of quasi-three-dimensional bowtie nanoantennas at visible wavelengths. Sci Rep 2017; 7:41966. [PMID: 28176795 PMCID: PMC5296718 DOI: 10.1038/srep41966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In this paper, a novel array of quasi-three-dimensional (quasi-3D) bowtie nanoantennas has been investigated numerically and experimentally. A low-cost and facile method has been designed and implemented to fabricate the quasi-3D bowtie nanoantennas. The fabrication processes containing laser patterning and wet etching have demonstrated the advantages of easily tuning the periodic and diameter of microhole arrays. According to the simulated results, the electric and magnetic resonances at visible wavelengths are obtained in the tips and contours of the metamaterials made of the quasi-3D bowtie nanoantennas, respectively. The effects of the size and gap of quasi-3D bowtie nanoantennas on the array performance have also been studied. The underlying mechanism suggests that different electric and magnetic resonant ranges of the metamaterials could contribute to the broad resonant range for the monolithic metamaterials.
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Zamani M, Hajesmaeili HN, Zandi MH. Generalization of transfer matrix method for bi-gyrotropic double-negative magnetic materials in order to use them in multilayer structures. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:035901. [PMID: 27849626 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/29/3/035901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The optical and magneto-optical (MO) response in magnetic multilayer systems is calculated by the transfer matrix method (TMM). In a bi-gyrotropic medium, the electric permittivity (ϵ) and the magnetic permeability (μ) coefficients are in the form of non-diagonal tensors synchronously, in which their non-diagonal elements refer to the existence of anisotropy in such a medium. On the other hand, in a double-negative medium, both the ϵ and μ coefficients are negative. In the present study, we have investigated the combination of these two phenomena and have introduced a TMM-based approach for studying the optical and MO properties of multilayer structures containing bi-gyrotropic double-negative magnetic materials (BDNMMs), whose diagonal and non-diagonal elements refer to the existence of negativity and anisotropy, respectively. We have also investigated the capability of such BDNMM materials in comparison with conventional bi-gyrotropic materials in magneto-photonic crystal structures. As a result, we found that broadening occurs in the optical and magneto-optical responses simultaneously.
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- Mehdi Zamani
- Faculty of Physics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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Patra PP, Chikkaraddy R, Thampi S, Tripathi RPN, Kumar GVP. Large-scale dynamic assembly of metal nanostructures in plasmofluidic field. Faraday Discuss 2016; 186:95-106. [PMID: 26765282 DOI: 10.1039/c5fd00127g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We discuss two aspects of the plasmofluidic assembly of plasmonic nanostructures at the metal–fluid interface. First, we experimentally show how three and four spot evanescent-wave excitation can lead to unconventional assembly of plasmonic nanoparticles at the metal–fluid interface. We observed that the pattern of assembly was mainly governed by the plasmon interference pattern at the metal–fluid interface, and further led to interesting dynamic effects within the assembly. The interference patterns were corroborated by 3D finite-difference time-domain simulations. Secondly, we show how anisotropic geometry, such as Ag nanowires, can be assembled and aligned in unstructured and structured plasmofluidic fields. We found that by structuring the metal-film, Ag nanowires can be aligned at the metal–fluid interface with a single evanescent-wave excitation, thus highlighting the prospect of assembling plasmonic circuits in a fluid. An interesting aspect of our method is that we obtain the assembly at locations away from the excitation points, thus leading to remote assembly of nanostructures. The results discussed herein may have implications in realizing a platform for reconfigurable plasmonic metamaterials, and a test-bed to understand the effect of plasmon interference on assembly of nanostructures in fluids.
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- Partha Pratim Patra
- Photonics & Optical Nanoscopy Laboratory
- Division of Physics and Center for Energy Science
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
- Pune-411008
- India
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- Photonics & Optical Nanoscopy Laboratory
- Division of Physics and Center for Energy Science
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
- Pune-411008
- India
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- Photonics & Optical Nanoscopy Laboratory
- Division of Physics and Center for Energy Science
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
- Pune-411008
- India
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- Photonics & Optical Nanoscopy Laboratory
- Division of Physics and Center for Energy Science
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
- Pune-411008
- India
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- Photonics & Optical Nanoscopy Laboratory
- Division of Physics and Center for Energy Science
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
- Pune-411008
- India
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